As the Head of Government, will the Taoiseach explain to the people why the Government continues to take VAT on goods and services that are at an inflated rate? I will break it down into three simple examples and explain to him how his Government is crippling businesses in the country, putting our householders into poverty and going to drive the country into a recession. The first example is one I gave him last year but I will give it again. The tax the Government takes on fuel, which is €57 of every €100, is based…

You can chalk that down again.

If you ran your business like I run mine, you would not be in business.

I am talking about tax, Taoiseach; VAT.

Tax.

Tax.

Tax.

If people have access to public transport.

If they have it.

It is amazing; he believes it himself.

The Taoiseach has just said one true thing, which is that the Government is not a business. He has explained that he does not understand business and neither does any of his Cabinet. If he understood business, he would understand how to live in this country. These are the Taoiseach's own records. I see Deputy Niall Collins over there having a good laugh, the same man who turned around and told the hotels in this country they were gouging. It was the Dublin hotels that were gouging, not the Limerick ones and the oth…

Exactly, it does not understand business.

Is it?

So you dictate to everyone else's business.

You are taxing their families out of existence.

Some 30% more, Taoiseach.

Yes because you are not getting it.

Because you cannot hold a candle to me.

You are not able to.

My God.