Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

He will have to deal with the householders when they feel it after their tyres have gone up by €20 for an ordinary saloon car. A haulier's tyre costs will go up by €100, and for a tractor the cost will increase by €100 per tyre. It is nonsense. I repeat that it is a Minister Kelly directive. He is the boss in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, as he has proclaimed many times. He is the man in charge and the directive is coming from him - through his officials, but directed by him. It is wasteful and it is an attack on small business people in the tyre industry. It is an attack on the ordinary public by driving up the price of tyres. It is an attack on farmers. Are we going to leave cattle at home, so, and have fair days in local villages, as we had a hundred years ago? We cannot have these silly directives. I appeal to An Garda Síochána not to be over-zealous. Taking tractors and trailers off a man with cattle in the mart? What is he going to do? They hired a low loader to take him to a test centre at enormous cost, even though he cannot be tested because there is no test for a tractor and trailer. He could not provide a tachograph printout because there are no tachographs in tractors. I will invite the Minister to come and sit up in my tractor some day - I have a spare seat in it - and he will see there is no place for a tachograph.

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