Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Everybody wants a carbon tax except Fianna Fáil and the ordinary people of Ireland. This is not a carbon tax. It is another attack on rural people in rural Ireland and it is an attack on the poor, the weak and the sick in society. Of course the Green Party Ministers want to save the world. They should save Ireland first and then they can save the world because they are destroying the country. They have it in the state it is in. The Ministers should go to the countries that are causing the problem. America and China would cause more trouble in five minutes than Ireland would cause for the next 50 years. I am sick and tired of the Green Party and people talking about carbon tax. It is another tax on people.

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