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

Enda Kenny: If Deputy Cuffe wants to come with me any weekend, I will show him wildlife in places he has never been.

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

Enda Kenny: if Deputy Cuffe wants to go counting hen harriers or counting frogs I have no objection.

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

Enda Kenny: The Government took 5% from them as well.

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

Enda Kenny: The Government is cutting their pay and child benefit and Deputy Cuffe expects them to go counting frogs for him.

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

Enda Kenny: For quite some time Fine Gael has set out its view on support for a carbon tax. The beauty of contrast is that this party produced its budget perspective last Friday, which included use of revenue from a carbon tax to provide incentives and opportunities for employers to create employment and to hold on to existing jobs by the reduction of PRSI at the 20% and 50% levels. Fine Gael's budget...

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

Enda Kenny: That is fine until he goes to his-----

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.