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

I thank the Minister. I appreciate all the things the Government has done but it must do more to help people. The Minister has vast experience. I know the Government wants to create employment. However, we must protect the employment we have. We must protect people who are going to work. We must protect the farmers who are suffering. It is the domestic users who will suffer in the end. Perhaps food will become unavailable. Perhaps it will become too costly. We must ensure that life goes on.

As the Minister said, people have a right to make a living but they are not doing so at the moment. I am asking the Minister to give back some of the tax the Government has accrued. It is being asked of me every day I am out on the road, whether I go to the pub, the supermarket or wherever else I go. People are asking me why the Government is not doing what is being done in other countries and giving back some of the tax it has accrued. The Government is accruing extra tax. The people who are paying it are suffering. Those are the people to whom we need to give something back.

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