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- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is not true.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: I continuously remind them of what its leader said in a speech, where it was clearly stated that the Government was not going far enough quick enough. I represent people from Kerry who are hard-pressed to heat their homes and to go to work. That is why we brought forward motions asking the Government to go back on what it was doing. I have been the holder of carbon and marked gas oil...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That is not true.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: It is 100% true. I have a memory. I remember that Sinn Féin did not support us when we wanted support in asking the Government to go back on what it had done. The Government has let down the people, and I am sorry to say that.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: Two years ago, I brought a truck to the Dáil and asked for the support of the likes of Sinn Féin and others across the House in respect of the fuel crisis. Did they support us? No. Did they vote on the last carbon tax? Yes. When there is an election, Sinn Féin turns to the people of Ireland and decides it needs to change. It has more faces than a Rubik's cube. It voted...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We did not say that.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: Every time there is an election, Sinn Féin tries to fool the people of Ireland. It is great that there is social media now, because we can see what Sinn Féin stands for. The local, European and mayoral elections are coming up. Sinn Féin will now try to say something. It proposed two amendments to strengthen the hate speech Bill. It tells people it is for the people of...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Thomas Pringle: I want to echo the calls of many in the Opposition benches as we try to get through to Ministers and Government supporting Deputies the depth of hurt the current cost-of-living crisis is continuing to have on families in our communities up and down the country. Quoting macroeconomic figures for inflation growth and the like are meaningless to the working mothers and fathers across Donegal...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Marian Harkin: I welcome the motion from Sinn Féin. It is straightforward and goes directly to the heart of the matter. I looked at average petrol pump prices today, which are €1.849 and €1.799 per litre for petrol and diesel, respectively. This time last year, petrol and diesel were, respectively, 19 cent and 13 cent cheaper per litre. I then looked at the figures for April 2020,...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Matt Shanahan: This motion seeks that the Government would scrap plans to increase the price of petrol and diesel on 1 August and yet again on 9 October. It also seeks to reverse the price increase that took place on 1 April. The main rationale to the motion is to recognise fuel prices have risen by more than 30% in the past three years and to recognise the significant and pronounced negative effect this...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Neale Richmond: We launched a new low-cost loan last week.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Matt Shanahan: Pardon?
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Neale Richmond: We launched a new low-cost loan last week.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Matt Shanahan: Even if the Government did do that I can tell the Minister of State, from people I am talking to that-----
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Neale Richmond: Grants of €25,000.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I have been down in Waterford and I have seen very few houses that have been retrofitted.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Neale Richmond: It only started on Tuesday.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I have seen very few people engaging in a retrofitting scheme and everybody who has looked at it tells me it is not affordable for them.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Neale Richmond: I will send the notes to the Deputy.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Matt Shanahan: Regardless of whether the Minister of State might think it is affordable-----