Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

What was missing from the Minister's contribution was any acknowledgement that households are contending with a cost-of-living crisis. What a Minister for Finance who is in touch with people and communities should be doing is thinking about how to relieve the burden on families that are struggling but what the Minister did on 1 April was to increase the pressure on individuals, families and motorists. In my county of Donegal - I come from the west of the county- and in many other parts of the country, a car is not a luxury. A car is the only way people can get from their home to their place of work, the only way they can drop their kids to a hospital or dental appointment, or get to the supermarket. Not all of us live in cities with options like the DART, Luas and buses. Motorists are being punished.

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