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

I admire the people of Germany who are actually opening up a coalmine to keep their people warm. What did the Government here try to do? It tried to stop people cutting turf to keep themselves warm. I can tell each and every one of those in government that in the last four or five weeks, people appreciate a fire when they have nothing else and they have no other option given to them. I am one of those people who is burning turf in my fire, and they can go to blazes, the whole lot of them. A lot of other people will continue to do that because they have no other way of keeping themselves warm.

With regard to petrol cars, I have nothing against electric cars but we do not have the infrastructure or even the electricity. All I am saying is that we could convert petrol cars to LPG, which would reduce the emissions almost entirely. We could run diesel cars on biofuels but the Government is doing nothing like that.

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