Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We have a good healthy respect when it comes to the hurling field. However, I know the jackboot tactics that are happening here and I am appealing to everybody, officials included, to be sensitive. They should understand that we do not have broadband in many parts of rural Ireland. I am not saying we are backward, because we are not. We do not have it. It is not a case of getting a DART, a bus or a taxi. We do not have them in rural Ireland, as the Minister knows better than I do.

Most of this is to collect extra revenue. It is wrong to penalise people who try to comply with legislation that was not properly advertised, although it was passed here, and to try to charge them thousands of euro they do not have.

Another point is the requirement to bring machines to NCT centres, which are only used to dealing with cars and light vans, not machines. I do not want to be disrespectful as they obviously have good, trained fitters. I have no problem with an engineers' report. People have to have roadworthy vehicles and we have to-----

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