Eamon Ryan: Government will examine taxing higher-polluting SUVs

The committee had heard from transport and sustainability experts in September that SUVs would have been the sixth-largest emitter of carbon in the world last year if they were a country. File photo: David Parry/PA

Taxing higher-polluting SUVs is a measure that the Government will examine over the next year, Eamon Ryan has said.

The Environment and Transport Minister told the Oireachtas Climate Committee that "we will go back and look at the tax issue" next October around budget time.