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Taxpayers foot €1m bill for carbon emissions generated by ministers and officials
State bodies paid almost €500,000 towards the Government’s Climate Action Fund (CAF) as a result of their air travel last year. The carbon offset payments were introduced for all public bodies in 2020, and since then they have led to more than €1m of …