Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It has been hinted in dispatches that it may be possible to use this money for this, that and the other. It seems that next week's budget will hit consumers with additional carbon taxes. If that happens, so be it because it is a matter for policy or whatever. If we are hitting consumers for 2 cent a litre for the specific purposes of the oil reserve that we require and that we all support, but in real terms we should be hitting them for 0.5 cent a litre or something like that, we need to be honest with people or else we should give the money back.