Fuel Prices
Dail Éireann — 2026-04-28
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Albert Dolan (FF), Galway East

I want to make something abundantly clear and it is very important that I get this point across. Let us take someone in the agri-sector who is contracting day in, day out. If their machine is costing them an extra €200 a day to keep on the road, that amounts to a grand a week, which is over €50,000 a year. No business can survive that. That is why this intervention is absolutely critical. School bus operators are signed into a contract. They need to be supported. We are already having issues getting school bus drivers and operators. We need to ensure they are supported and they can survive and continue.
This country runs a serious risk of seeing massive construction inflation if we cannot manage the costs facing both self-builders and those building our national infrastructure and other projects across the country. It is vital that as much intervention as possible is put in place to help these SMEs survive. What further interventions does the Government plan to make?

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Sitting date: 2026-04-28