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

I am making the point. I am not attacking. I am making the point that the interventions the Government has brought in, and the packages beyond the excise measures we are voting on here, will directly support all people in their lives and will help to avoid the cost-of-living crisis that impacts on everyone. Things do not happen in isolation.
Deputy Hearne talked about people not being able to cover the basics. It is the same point with where people are struck there.
Deputy Tóibín talked about the inability to talk to people and to listen. I have been engaging with the farmer representative bodies, the fishers and others for weeks on developing schemes. There are constraints and this is the challenge for the Government. We have to explain the constraints around the energy directive, how it needs to work around state aid rules with the EU and how that takes time. We were not in a position to do more on green diesel in the first intervention, but it has taken me time here to explain that, as it would in an interview. I cannot make a short, snappy TikTok video, which I suspect was the intention of Deputy Doherty when he was here earlier putting on the record that the intervention on green diesel was only 4 cent, wherever he got that figure from.

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Sitting date: 2026-04-14