Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax
Dail Éireann — 2021-10-12
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Matt Carthy (SF), Cavan-Monaghan

The only difference that today's budget will bring to most workers and families is that their fuel and heating costs will increase again tonight. This very night petrol and diesel prices will increase again. The Government has been told that families are already struggling with energy and fuel hikes. This year energy companies have increased their prices 30 times. The price of a litre of petrol in a service station I stopped at this morning was €1.65, an absolutely crazy price for people who have no choice but to use their car to get to work.

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Sitting date: 2021-10-12