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

In speaking to this amendment, I am always concerned and worried about what I consider to be an additional wealth tax. This is simply because we have to be careful in the future not to give the impression to businesses or people from abroad that if they come here, they will be taxed exorbitantly. I thank Deputy Pearse Doherty for his excellent work, as always, but I want to use this opportunity to speak about the group of people working diligently for the Government who have been trying to come up with imaginative ways to extract more money from our hard-pressed taxpayers as a result of the declining use of diesel and petrol.

A great deal of revenue was collected from those sources and they were a very easy target. The Government has its eyes on petrol and diesel and wants us to stop using them. What have they done? In case it is not public knowledge, I will tell the House what has been done.

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