Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

With veterinary supervision. I know it is not allowed. God knows what is not allowed now. There is a lot less allowed now than what is allowed and that is the problem. However, we want these drivers operating for small companies to be allowed to go out and do an honest day's work for an honest day's pay and supply the good shopkeepers in Kilgarvan and ar fud na tíre in every other town and village, and not have them ringing up and not having Mary, Agnes and Angela coming in for their confectionery and we do not have it because they cannot stop somewhere over Boherbue or up the hill when the battery went down and there was no place to recharge it. It is a bit of nonsense.

We are moving these amendments because we feel strongly about this. We want to support this category of employees who have given loyal and dedicated service to their companies, pay their taxes, provide for their families and then go out and support clubs and support many other community initiatives in communities with the hard-earned cash that they have left after paying their taxes. All they want is continue to do that. We need to nudge them along slowly in the green dream and call off the dogs. Whether it be tails wagging the dogs or the dogs wagging the tails or dogs with no tail, but cut them off because it is a nightmare. You would wake up and think you were in a bad dream. I am not putting my head in the sand, but we have run away with ourselves here and I am shocked that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael would allow the Green Ministers to have such a negative and devastating impact on our rural people.

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