Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members]
Dail Éireann — 2023-09-26
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Matt Carthy (SF), Cavan-Monaghan

I commend Deputy Doherty on bringing this motion to the House. If I were in the humour, I might commend the Minister on managing to spend ten minutes avoiding the very context of the motion in his own remarks. I recall that not so long ago, on 1 September, when people realised that their petrol costs had increased by 7 cent per litre and their diesel costs by 5 cent per litre, there was a genuine sense of frustration among many people I spoke to. Then they realised that this was nothing to do with Ukraine; it was not as a result of a blockage of the Suez Canal and it was not as a result of any of the other litany of excuses-----

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Sitting date: 2023-09-26