James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)

This is a crippling and unfair tax on motorists. After all the huffing and puffing of the Greens before and during the election campaign and again tonight the Minister did not get his fair share of the Government cake when it was being dished out and he has to impose this extra tax on our motorists. He is imposing the "Dublin knows best" mentality on people in rural Ireland, people who have to commute from the midlands and other parts of the country to Dublin on a daily basis——

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