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

This policy and indeed all the hullabaloo yesterday has frightened many people again in rural Ireland. There is a race between Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to see who would be greener than the Greens. The headline in the paper was that the Government wants to force private motorists out of their cars. I want to tell the Taoiseach that people in rural Ireland cannot manage without a car.

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