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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister mentioned one thing there, namely blaming the Middle East and all that. The facts are that a barrel of oil is cheaper now than it has been for a long time and ye are increasing this excise duty now again. Have ye any consideration for the people that are paying their money to fill their tanks? Have ye any consideration or any feeling in your hearts at all? On the one hand,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ----fuel was way cheaper, so the Minister must take a lesser amount now in light of what people are paying now.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Many of your spokespersons have said so, and ye are squandering millions.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Two and a half billion euro has been spent on migration, €600 million has been allocated in respect of a road in the North of Ireland----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ----and €860,000 to bring dogs and cats in. Those in government are----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: ----putting the petrol and the diesel up by between 4 and 8 cent a litre.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The Minister is in government; Sinn Féin is not. I am asking him to deal with the problem.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am only bringing the messages of the people that contact me up here. I did not make up these stories.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: The facts are there. People cannot afford to carry on.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Have ye no feeling in your hearts or bodies at all?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I have no luxury.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am paying as much as anyone else.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am bringing up the stories honestly that I am hearing from the people I am meeting every day.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I am glad to get the opportunity to raise this very important issue. People are being driven down to the ground. Wheels will stop. They will cease turning because people just cannot afford what is going on. The Minister must realise that there is more than €1 being added to the original cost of fuel. There was a case to be made for a carbon tax, for those who wanted it, when the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: At the end of March, the average price was €1.60 to €1.62.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: This is not fair. It has gone up by 16 to 18 cent in the space of a few weeks.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 3. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the serious implications of the recent increase in fuel prices on motorists, hauliers, commercial business, farmers and especially rural communities, where people do not have any alternative options but to use their cars. [15418/24]

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: Maybe he will have the mountains carried from when we were down home.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to the recent fuel price increase and future planned increases in the cost of petrol and diesel, and the impact this will have on motorists and businesses. [15419/24]

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fadhb Thithíochta na Gaeltachta: BÁNÚ (10 Apr 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: First, I apologise for not being able to talk in Irish. I was not lucky enough to have been born in the Gaeltacht area or perhaps to have gone to colleges or whatever to educate myself in the Gaelic language, but that is not to say that I do not respect it and the witnesses. I can identify with the problems they have and, through the translation, I have heard everything they have said. I...