Energy cost-burden growing

Perhaps the Economic and Social Research Institute could have chosen a better week to publish a study calling for a new carbon tax.

Perhaps the Economic and Social Research Institute could have chosen a better week to publish a study calling for a new carbon tax. After all, petrol prices are rising sharply, making the €1 a litre level but a distant memory.

Meanwhile last Friday the Commission for Energy Regulation gave the go-ahead for further increases in electricity and gas prices

The prospect of a carbon tax - which would further increase the cost of ...