3 ms·The Irish bag tax has been increased from €0.15 to €0.44 over the years.by knolan 7y agoThe Irish bag tax has been increased from €0.15 to €0.44 over the years.benj111 7y ago"Ireland: The country introduced a plastic bag tax of 37 cents on purchase in 2001" So its talking about when it was introduced.btb 7y agoSimilar to the current charge in Denmark which is around 3.75 DKK(€0.5) per large plastic bag