Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)

I also suggest the Minister consider legalising cannabis and taxing it in the same way as cigarettes. The Government might then be able to meet some of the other costs it has that it has not been able to meet because cannabis is nearly as widely used as tobacco and alcohol, despite the best efforts of the authorities to prevent it.

I thought the excise increase on diesel was a carbon tax when I heard it, but the Green Party reduced the tax one pays to county councils for having a diesel car and Fianna Fáil took it back with this increase. Obviously the Greens were not at the meetings.

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