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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is excise. That is the difference between white diesel and green diesel. Is that not right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It could not be reflective of that because Mr. McPartlan said earlier that NORA released it at the market price-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I ask the witnesses to give me some quick-fire answers back. Mr. Kenny spoke about hydrogen. When is it coming?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Let us call a spade a spade. A bus with hydrogen costs €800,000. I went through the -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is €22 per kilogram. BOC does not even have the machinery. It can go as far as 17 kg; it needs to go to 28 kg. I think that we are dreaming dreams if we are on about hydrogen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: It is about 20 years away.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Let us deal with the crisis we are in at the moment. That is 20 years away.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Bus men do not get VAT back, is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: I am a contractor. Most lorry men are registered for VAT. Would making VAT reclaimable for bus men be a solution?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: The Chairman might take note of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does Mr. Drennan know what percentage of trucks now have switched to Euro 6 standard engines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: How long would it take to get more of them?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Right. I have two questions for the hauliers and the bus men. Some companies did deals for a surcharge, as we called it in building years ago. There was something called a surcharge which clicked in over a certain level. Some companies have done it at €1.30 at the moment. Would it not be a simpler solution that we would have a system where there is a level playing field across the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: There are 42,000 lorries on the road and 20,000 of those cannot get the rebate or €100 a week. If I own a mill and I bring the meal to a farmer, I cannot get it because I do not need a haulage licence because I am hauling my own goods. If I own a quarry and am bringing it down, I cannot get it. They should be included in it. Is Mr. Flynn from an English company or what is the set-up?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Is it training it does?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Will Mr. Flynn run through it briefly. Does it do training for the State or what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does it do State contracts or what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Does it tender for State contracts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: Hold on one second. Does it do haulage of its own?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Michael Fitzmaurice: What contracts?