Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The cost of fuel this year has been a real challenge across the economy but particularly challenging for fisheries, given the high percentage of overall costs that fuel makes up for fishing. We did not have the capacity to do anything from a revenue point of view in relation to marine gas oil because the only tax applied to it is VAT, which is fully reclaimable. As a result, our options in that regard were non-existent.