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Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Minister can count the frogs and the hen harriers.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Minister should go to the pensioners-----

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: ------and to the blind pensioners who will be hit by the carbon tax on solid fuels. All they have is the bag of turf, the bale of briquettes or the bag of coal which, I might add, is being hawked about on every street corner with a higher sulphur content than the Minister would like. It is coming into the country by various means and receipts show it is being sold as horse feed and so on...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I support the principle of a carbon tax but not the way it is being done. The Minister did not even have the courtesy to speak to Opposition members about the way he intended to implement it. I support the principle of a carbon tax but not the way it is intended to implement it.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Who will lend the money?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The banks will not give people the money.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: May I ask the Minister a question?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: May I ask the Minister something?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: If the average cost-----

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: -----is €15,000 or €20,000, people will not get it from the banks in the first place.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Minister will not listen.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: May I ask another question?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: May I ask the Minister a question?

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Yes.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Yes, they are.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: They are not doing so.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Minister seems to know all the answers. If a constituent, Mr. John Gormley, lives in a semi-detached house and gets an estimate of what it will cost to retrofit the house at €25,000, he will not get it from the bank and he will not want to borrow the money. What he will get under the SEI will not cover it.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: Explain that.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: The Government is going the wrong way about doing it.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise (Mineral Oil) (9 Dec 2009)

Enda Kenny: I resent that nonsense.