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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank Mr. Kavanagh. I will move to members. Each will have five minutes. I ask them to get to their questions quickly. I will cut at five minutes because four minutes is too short but five should be sufficient. I want to be fair to our guests and ensure they are asked the appropriate questions. If people are making speeches I want them to go straight into questions because we must be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: No liberties today. This one I am going to strictly enforce.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I normally give huge liberties but we are caught for time and I want to be fair to our guests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The school contracts are fixed-price contracts, in layman's terms.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: The association is looking for a variation given the inflation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Apology accepted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What specific proposal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Rather than the 7 cent?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: So, it is roughly a trebling.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: If they basically took the NTA's Local Link scheme in this regard and brought it into the bus sector, would the industry be happy with that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: There is a precedent there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will let the other representatives also bring that into the discussion.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Only legitimate hauliers can claim it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thought some of it came in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Kavanagh is not reinventing the wheel.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Mr. Kavanagh to send the committee a follow-up note on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Before I call others to contribute, I wish to ask Mr. Drennan something. Under the current scheme, once the price goes above €1.27, the rebate reaches a maximum of 7.5 cent when the price reaches €1.43. Am I correct in that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: What was the basis for the €1.27 and the €1.43?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: I am not interested in that. I understand it all. I am more interested in the basis for setting those rates. We are looking at a greatly increased price now. The rates of €1.27 and €1.43 were not picked out of the air.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fuel Prices: Discussion (23 Mar 2022)
Kieran O'Donnell: Mr. Drennan is missing my point. If there was a logic around-----