Questions raised over Government's spending of €3bn carbon tax income

The Government has been urged to explain exactly how it spent more than €3bn worth of carbon tax income over the past decade amid fears that this year's €6 carbon tax budget hike will fail to be spent on climate matters.

Fianna Fáil TD and Dáil public accounts committee chairman, Sean Fleming, issued the demand at the latest meeting of the PAC on Thursday, saying there is no evidence the decade-long war-chest has been spent on the environment.