Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 March 2023

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Eugene Drennan:

We need surety about where we are going. We need to know the direction for sure. We have outlined why there is only one way to go. We cannot keep hopping around between all the different suggestions. We need to comply with the ten-year plan for road freight. It has just been introduced by the Minister for Transport. That plan says that, in the medium term, the only show in town is diesel. We need that to come through because we have customers asking us for this, that and the other that is not available. We need the investment. We need surety because the repayment on a truck is across a five-year term and now it is being pushed out to seven years. We need surety around which way we are going.

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