Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax
Dail Éireann — 2026-04-14
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Martin Heydon (FG), Kildare South

It was a pensioner who could not afford meat as part of her diet. The Deputy specifically mentioned food on a number of occasions. If we do not intervene with the support of our €100 million package for the agrifood sector, it will have a direct impact on the cost of inflation. Energy is the biggest driver of inflation. Food inflation will absolutely have an impact on workers, so telling workers that these measures will not help them is not true. The measures supporting farmers and our package to support hauliers with a €140 million intervention to reduce the cost of logistics services that bring the food from farm to fork directly benefit everyone.

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