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

I am glad to get the opportunity to mention a few of the sectors that have been left behind with regard to the CRSS payment. Mineral water distributors are not closed down but more than 90% of their customers are not buying from them. In fact the distributors have to take back bottles at their own cost and dump the stuff.

Taxi drivers in Killarney feel they have been let down. Some of them can get the PUP and more of them who tried to operate cannot do so because they have no customers. I went into College Street the other night and there was one taxi there. I know that some of these taxi drivers will have to give back their taxis in the near future because they just cannot make the payments. I am sad to see that those grand men and women who gave such sterling service in Killarney and outside of it will lose their way of life and will have to surrender.

Coach operators were an important part of the tourism sector in Kerry. It is sad to see yards full of buses, with up to 90 buses in some yards in Killarney, that have not moved in the past 12 months or more. It is tough on these people, who gave such sterling service with their drivers and the type of buses they provided, that they have been left behind as well.

I mention those who provide fish and vegetables to hotels. Even though they are not shut down, 90% of their business is gone and they have been left behind in this scheme as well.

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