Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I continuously remind them of what its leader said in a speech, where it was clearly stated that the Government was not going far enough quick enough. I represent people from Kerry who are hard-pressed to heat their homes and to go to work. That is why we brought forward motions asking the Government to go back on what it was doing. I have been the holder of carbon and marked gas oil licences for the past 34 years. I sell fuel and see every day of the week what difference prices make to people going to work and what it costs to fill a car or van. I open at 5 a.m. and we start serving people at 6 a.m. I know the difference the price of fuel makes for people in rural Ireland who drive vans, jeeps and cars to work. I see what it means to older people filling their home heating oil tanks with kerosene. I think of what Sinn Féin did to those people when it supported the carbon tax.

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