Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

They are better cars. yet the Minister is putting tariffs on Chinese cars at half the price. He really does not want people to drive them, does he? The Minister did put the cart before the horse. I am not denying that the transition will take place, but the reality is the Minister has left some people in a financially disadvantaged position because of his inability to provide the infrastructure. We have allowed the Chinese to flood the market with cars that are built at half the price, might I add, from coal-powered energy. Sometimes people see the Minister going off and signing up to targets that mean little or nothing except billions in fines for this country. That is what makes them suspicious of the green agenda. Everybody has bought into the green agenda, but it seems to be costing some people more. It seems to be costing our fishing fleet and farmers more, all because the Minister has signed up to targets which are just not achievable, not in the timeframe for which the Minister signed up to them. He has decimated sectors of rural Ireland without a second thought.

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