Use carbon tax revenue to end fuel poverty, says Duncan Stewart

REVENUE raised from the carbon tax should be used to tackle fuel poverty, award-winning architect and RTÉ presenter, Duncan Stewart, said yesterday.

Mr Stewart, presenter of About The House and Eco Eye, said the tax had imposed an unsustainable burden on many, low-income households experiencing fuel poverty.

There was, he said, a danger that the carbon tax could become a regressive tax, penalising those least able to pay it.