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- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Thomas Gould: The Government has planned three excise and carbon tax increases on petrol and diesel this year. These increases should not go ahead. The Dáil will be on holidays in August when the review of prices, which the Minister of State talked about, will happen. Does the Minister of State know what happens in August? Parents get ready to send their kids back to school because they are back...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Neale Richmond: Schoolbooks are free.
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Thomas Gould: Not all children have the free schoolbooks scheme. That is not in place in August. Will it be in place? The fact is that ordinary people are trying to send their kids to school or college and to go to work. The Minister of State talks about a just transition. Can I explain something? If the Minister of State ever goes to Grenagh in Cork North-Central, which is my constituency, in a...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Paul Donnelly: I call on the Minister of State to scrap the plan to increase the cost of petrol and diesel in August and again in October. It is inconceivable that the Government would increase costs for people twice this year at a time when they are still experiencing the cost-of-living crisis. Many of my constituents do not have an opportunity to use public transport to get to work for many reasons....
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Violet-Anne Wynne: I support this motion and what it sets out to do. Ireland is one of the most expensive countries in the EU in which to live. In the past four years, the cost of energy rose by 58.3% and mortgage interest has surged by 60.3%. Food prices have risen by 15.4% and transport costs are up 18.7%. Statistics show that even when energy companies began to drop their prices last year, energy costs...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Neale Richmond: I am very grateful for the opportunity to respond to some of the issues raised in the debate on the Sinn Féin motion on the increases in fuel excise effective from 1 August and 9 October this year. Sinn Féin has expressed the view that the restoration of excise duty of 1 April should be reversed and that both the final restoration of excise duty due to take place on 1 August and...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Carol Nolan: I am happy to speak on this motion. I support the principle, but it is difficult to take lessons from a party that supports the carbon tax. That being said, the Government should consider scrapping its plans to increase the price of petrol and diesel on 1 August and 9 October and reverse the increase that took place on 1 April. Just six weeks ago, I made the same request to the then...
- Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)
Michael Healy-Rae: I support the motion, but I am a little confused. While we in the Rural Independent Group support the motion, it seems a little late for Sinn Féin to now be concerned about higher fuel taxes when it has consistently supported them in the past. It failed to support the Rural Independent Group when we moved motions in the House to roll back fuel taxes and scrap the carbon tax. Sinn...
- 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?