Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Acting Chairman. I thank and compliment Deputy Bríd Smith on bringing the Bill before the House. Although we might not always agree about issues and I may not agree with the Bill, I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on it. I wish to declare, as I always must, what could be perceived as a possible conflict of interest: I have, for many years, been a retailer of petrol, oil products and so on.

When I started out I was 19 or 20 years old when I purchased a filling station. At that time we had leaded petrol. When unleaded petrol came in, we had the added complication of needing two types of petrol pumps for leaded and unleaded. The more modern cars could only take the unleaded and-----

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