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

If members of this Government, including the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, were in any other jurisdiction, they would be tried for high treason. The first thing the Government did was to close down Bord na Móna. The price of electricity has gone up every day since. Everyone driving on the roads is being robbed by the tax content in the cost of fuel. Four energy providers have left the market this week. There will be no competition and ESB bills are going to be dearer. It looks like 150 social houses in County Kerry will remain vacant because there is no funding for voids to turn them around because the Minister wants them to be retrofitted to the highest standard. There are 150 houses vacant. The former Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, Deputy Varadkar, stopped the drilling in 2019. The gas fields of Kerry, the Corrib and Kinsale could be probed further. Some 200 million barrels of gas and oil could be drilled out of Barryroe. The Government pays no heed to that. It refused, point blank, planning permission for Shannon LNG and the Minister is against it. That is criminal. People on the road are paying the amount of tax they are paying and then the Minister suggests that one car would do everyone in a village. Yet, he and his party members and Ministers fly first class and peer down on the lot of us. That is what this Government is about. If it were any other jurisdiction, its members would be tried for high treason because the people in the country are highly regarded.

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