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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: It is you who makes the decision.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: You made the decision to jack up the price. You are making the decision to do it in August and you are planning to do it in October again, and shame on you.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: You will not answer about those jobs that are dependent on this type of business.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I am asking the question but he keeps on interrupting me.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I will ask the question, with respect to the Chair.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 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...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: I think the time allowed is two minutes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The time is allocated to the Opposition. It is two minutes and two minutes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Okay.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister said that there are lots of considerations feeding into the final price that people pay at the pump. What he did not say was that nearly 60% of what people pay to fill up their car is going to the Revenue. It goes to the State because that is the level of tax that is being applied and the Minister's plan is to increase the tax. When people stop off at a petrol station in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: He will make the wrong decision on 1 August, if he does the same and he will make the wrong decision again on 1 October of he decides to do it for a third time.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: It needs to be scrapped and the Minister should indicate that today.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: That is the point. That is what one does.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Yes, but-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: 1. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will cancel the increases in excise duty on petrol and diesel scheduled for August and October of this year, given the cost-of-living pressures facing households, and their impact on trade for businesses in the Border region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15273/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fuel Prices (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: On 1 April, the Minister and the Government increased the level of excise duty on petrol and diesel. If the Minister gets away with this plan, this increase will be followed by two further tax increases, one in August and another in October. I am sure the Minister is aware that households are still facing a cost-of-living crisis. There is a widening gap between fuel prices North and South....

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: It is ridiculous.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: That is what the Government is offering.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: Exactly. The Taoiseach should be here.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (10 Apr 2024)

Pearse Doherty: The Ceann Comhairle has nailed his colours to the mast in relation to the Whips. All of our Whips represent our groupings and parties.