Energy and Fuel Costs: Motion [Private Members]
Dail Éireann — 2026-03-18
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Martin Kenny (SF), Sligo-Leitrim

It just seems a little bit rich that the Government could do nothing but monitor it until this evening and now that we are here and we are actually going to produce something that will have an effect for people and will reduce the tax rate that people have to pay on their fuel and home heating oil, all of a sudden the Government has managed to find the road to Damascus. The Government has turned and is going to do something about it. I wish to God the Government had found that road a couple of weeks ago when people the length and breadth of the country were realising that the price of their home heating oil was going through the roof.

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Sitting date: 2026-03-18