Mr. Aidan Flynn:

To clarify, the vast majority of our fuel supply comes from the UK, Norway and the US. We are not very reliant on Russian fuel.

As I outlined in my opening statement, there are approximately 40,000 heavy goods vehicles over 3.5 tonnes. The haulage sector accounts for more than half of that but there are nearly 20,000 commercial heavy goods vehicles that are operated within the own-account sector, all of which have the same operational costs. They are excluded from the rebate programme in general. They cannot get the 7.5 cent. They are also excluded from the €100 emergency grant. We saw during the Covid pandemic how reliant we are on all sectors of the heavy goods vehicle market, including the own-account sector, which worked hand in hand with the haulage sector in terms of delivering an efficient logistics sector and deserves massive credit for the work.