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Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: That is the real budget.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: It is not fair.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: They did not.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: The Minister must correct it.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: That is right.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: They are anti-farmer and anti-rural Ireland.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: I want to highlight three issues during my brief contribution to this debate. I will start by explaining why the Bill before the House represents hypocrisy at its worst. There will be a referendum on the Lisbon treaty soon. We will tell the people of this country that the European Union has been great for Ireland. We were told during previous EEC and EU referendums that people would be...

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: People can be killed in accidents that happen after they stop to figure out where they are. I never hear the Road Safety Authority complaining about that. They should be complaining about the fact that people are being killed on the roads because they do not know where they are going. When people go down the wrong road, they have to turn back, which can lead to accidents. It is a very...

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: We have not seen any action yet.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: I have been listening to him for ten years.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: I will never forget that the Minister, Deputy Noel Dempsey, gave us e-voting machines in every town and village in the country.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: The storage of the machines has cost us over €100 million to date. I am sure all his speeches are in storage too.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: If we check the Minister's speeches, we will find that he has been preaching for the past ten years. The trouble is that we need action. I do not want read last week's speech. I want to see some signage in this country. It is a very simple thing. All I am asking for is a small bit of signage.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: It is a very simple thing. As I have said, my final point relates to road safety. A new section of the N5 in County Mayo, as far as Ballaghaderreen, was recently opened. I ask RTE to send a journalist to the area to see what has been done. I do not know why a white structure had to be put on the new road. I do not have the correct term for what the thing is actually called. I suppose a...

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: Businesses and the public are under pressure. I am from rural Ireland and we have no public transport. We do not have the Luas or Dublin Bus or the taxi service people have in the cities. The Government does not mind subsidising Dublin but we need our cars and the Government is taxing us to make sure we will have no cars. It is all right for the Minister, he can cycle to work in the...

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: That is not true.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: That is not true.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: That is the Green Party policy. The Deputy is mixed up.

Motor Vehicle (Duties and Licences) Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: I am not listening to any more of this nonsense. I must leave the House.

Written Answers — Departmental Properties: Departmental Properties (20 Feb 2008)

Michael Ring: Question 176: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the payments being received annually in each of the past three years by the Department of Health and Children or the Office of Public Works for the provision of space to mobile phone operators on masts owned by that Department or the OPW (details supplied), giving details of the payments received for each mast location; and if he...