Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent Ireland Party)

They are now driving down the middle of the road. There is plenty of room for biodiversity inside the ditches around the fields. It is the law that anyone in this country should be able to travel in it safely.

Today, we are looking at somebody in the Chair who has driven trucks and was part of the haulage industry. For God's sake, the Minister of State is partly responsible for the costs of truckers and his Government is the cause of inflation in this country through taxes.

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