You can yap all you want. Why do you not go and yap to the people? Why do you not go and talk to ordinary people?

Talk to the fisherman who came to me.

Talk to the fishermen who will tell you that the diesel went up €10,000 in a fortnight. That boat is tied up; the crew is out of work because of inaction from your Government. We will not accept half measures and we will vote against this resolution for that purpose but also because you are asking us to lock in increases in carbon tax every year to 2030. That is what this resolution states. I say to every party that stood on the protest line and talked about carbon tax, by God do not be voting for it tonight becaus…

The excise duty is 4 cent.

It is in your table.

Do not be a numpty all your life. It is in your table

I move amendment No. 1: In paragraph (1), to delete the table proposed to be inserted by subparagraph (a) and substitute the following: "TABLE RATE OF NATURAL GAS CARBON TAX ".

I move that: That Dáil Éireann: recognises that: — unsustainably high energy and fuel prices in this state further compounded a pre-existing cost of living crisis; — the duty of the Government is to protect people from severe energy shocks to the greatest extent possible; and — the Government has the ability to cut the cost of fuel; notes that: — home heating oil has hit the highest price on record going back 30 years; — petrol and diesel are on course to exceed their highest price on record this month; and — the p…

This Government is not acting and is not listening. It was dragged to take action by public anger and by pressure, because people could not take any more. Even now, after all that, what has been brought forward falls far short. As if that was not enough, the Government is turning its fire not just on the protesters but also on the media. We have had a Minister question RTÉ’s coverage of the protests. That is, as has been said by others, a sinister intervention. It is an attempt to lean on journalists, to second-gue…

Tonight at 7.45 p.m. the country will come to a standstill to cheer on the boys in green in Prague. It is wrong that so many people in the North who share the same passion and identity may be unable to watch their national team free to air because it is geoblocked. This is something the Government urgently needs to address. I was a young lad when Donegal's famous son Packie Bonner made that save to set Ireland up for victory in Italia '90, and that memory stays with me. Let us hope the lads can do the business toni…

More spin and more deflection from the Minister. What he says is nonsense. Everybody knows what happened. We have led on this issue. We put forward an amendment that would have seen the maximum reduction in the price of diesel for people and the same reduction for petrol and would have seen excise duty completely removed from home heating oil, the cost of which has nearly doubled in four weeks. What did the Tánaiste do? What did his colleagues in Fine Gael do? What did Fianna Fáil and the Independent lackeys who su…

That is leadership and that is what we will continue to fight for on behalf of hundreds of thousands of people right across this State.

I did not say that.

What do you say to that woman who does not get it?

What do you say to that woman who does not get it?

Business Post authors said that.

The Business Post -----

Are you calling out the three journalists in the Business Post?

Is that what you are doing?

Is that what you are doing?