Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses to the committee and thank them for their opening statements and the answers to the questions so far. I will try not to be repetitive in that regard.

I will begin with the IFA. Its opening statement mentions the proposal by the Commission on Taxation and Welfare for equalisation on the levy on excise duty and that agricultural diesel be the same as marked gas oil. The association states that the proposal would, at today's prices and rates, see an extra 50 cent per litre added to the price of agricultural diesel. Will the IFA clarify something it has mentioned previously?

Are there no alternatives to agricultural fuel at this point? What does the horizon look like in that regard?