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Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Marian Harkin: ...not hold the same view as the Rural Independent Group on carbon tax. To me, this is a ring-fenced fixed tax which will go to those who need it most when it comes to retrofitting homes. Retrofitting is a medium and long-term solution. It is never easy for the Government to fund good outcomes in four, five or ten years. That is a positive step, but the Government has a responsibility to...

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...emergency energy cost-relief packages for households, which should include a temporary time-limited reduction in the VAT rate on energy and fuel up until the next budget, and seek an EU derogation to allow for long-term retention of the historic 13.5% rate on electricity and gas, when such a temporary VAT cut expires. Considering everything we have done to bend over backwards for the EU...

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Charlie McConalogue: ...is in addition to almost €1.2 billion in EU funded direct payments received annually to support farm incomes; — in October 2021, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine tasked Teagasc to lay out a credible roadmap to assist farmers in the short-term with the rise in fertiliser prices as well as offering a long-term solution in the move to reduce dependency on...

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Michael Collins: ...financial pressures, and all contingencies have been exhausted, while other issues persist within the pig sector, including African swine fever, the current dire economic situation is critically urgent, and the sector can no longer survive without Government support or intervention; and — the Irish Government has failed to make any additional supports available to our farmers,...

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...the Government got this wrong, because it has. The other Deputies who voted for carbon taxes need to realise that they were wrong. People will not be able to sustain this. We are not far away from the day when we are driving along the road only to look up at a pole and see that a litre of fuel, be it diesel or petrol, costs more than €2. How are people supposed to manage then?...