Haulage Costs for SMEs: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2025-11-20
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Michael Fitzmaurice (II), Roscommon-Galway

I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate. People need to realise that about 165 million tonnes of goods are hauled around this country every year and 13.6 billion miles are done by hauliers. I have a truck licence and I drove trucks a lot of my life. Anyone who knows it will see the council go along and take two swipes of the road, but the third and fourth swipes are needed where there is a mirror of a bus, lorry or anything that is going along. Let no one tell me that a bird has a nest on the side of-----

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Sitting date: 2025-11-20