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

I appreciate all the measures the Government has taken. However, many people have not benefited from those gestures from the Government. That is especially the case for people who are on the road and going to work, and families who are taking children to school. The costs for commercial lorries and others in the transport industry have gone up steeply. I am also talking about industrial contractors who are transporting materials for roads and building houses. School buses are tied into contracts. It may be construed that I have a conflict of interest in that regard but school bus operators are tied into contracts they must honour. They are suffering now. Taxi and hackney drivers are also affected. People who work as home helps were on to me in recent days and telling me that their work hardly pays them enough to justify going to mind old people.

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