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

I support the amendment. I will ask the Minister a couple of clear questions and give him plenty of time to answer them. If he gets away with screwing more money from the hard-pressed motorists, haulage contractors, fisherman, farmers and contractors through more additional excise taxes, will he answer a couple of questions tonight? Will he answer Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, which said the Minister's actions will lead to deaths on our roads? It put that directly at the Minister's feet and even listed out where people were going to die because he was holding up projects. Is the Minister quite happy to do that? He really does not care. All he really wants is for it to be the Green Party's way or nobody's way.

I would like it very much if the Minister would listen to this. The electoral mandate the Minister has is totally disproportionate to the actions he has been putting the Irish people through for the last number of years. There are some small things he might like to tell people. Tell people tonight about the two electric buses he sent to Dingle and had to be brought back up to him again. They are in a yard now and will probably never be used. They cost the taxpayer an awful lot of money but they were a complete failure. They were not fit for purpose. The Minister sent two electric buses down to County Kerry and they were sent back up to him again.

I asked the Minister a parliamentary question so I will get the truth out of the Minister, whether he likes it or not, because he has to answer me. I will tell the people the answer. I will them what it cost them. I will tell them about how he made a fool of himself with the two electric buses he sent down to Dingle. I do not mind exposing the Minister for what he has done and the pain he has inflicted on people.

As I have said previously, if there is any natural justice when the election is called, the Minister and the people with him will get their answer. I pray to holy God in heaven. If there is a god, and I believe in God, I hope the Minister will get his answer from the people and they will let him know what they think of him-----

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