Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage
Dail Éireann — 2023-04-18
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Mattie McGrath (IND), Tipperary

I am very surprised at the Minister. I know him a long time. He is standing behind the signal given by the Government in 2019 and supporting a significant change of the fleet. Some people took it up and some did not. Some people could not afford it. Many had no faith in it. The Government obviously has no faith in this now either. It talks about the national children's hospital, but where is it? It talks about the roll-out of broadband, but where is that? The Government is going to have a charging point every 60 km on the motorways. Does it not trust the cars to bring people any further than 60 km? The genie is out of the bottle as far I am concerned, and that is a fact. No one here has talked about the abhorrent, disgusting slave labour in the countries where the materials for the batteries are mined.

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Sitting date: 2023-04-18