I said in Wexford.

To the Tánaiste, I say that is what elects Independent Deputies.

The rubbish that you talk.

Well, good for you. Let me tell you every time someone ends up in the Slaney, you will get your moment.

A very serious incident is being reported in Wexford this morning by journalist Dan Walsh and South East Radio. On Monday, 23 of the councillors in Wexford County Council voted to increase the property tax and 11 voted against it so that the hard-strapped mortgage payers would not have an increase in their property tax. What actually happened was that at yesterday's Gorey district meeting, the chair of Wexford County Council, who is a Gorey councillor, Pip Breen, brought a proposal to stop the 11 councillors who de…

It is a disgrace.

One of the simple facts that most people understand is that failure to plan is planning to fail. Deputy Canney spoke about how often we had stood on this floor to debate this issue. In my short political career, I have stood on this floor 60 times to discuss disability issues. It is terrible that I have to tell the Government that matters are getting worse, not better. Despite the fact the Government believes it is pumping money into this area, the situation is going backwards. The Government set up 93 CDNTs around…

Will the Minister provide a breakdown of the initiatives being rolled out by the Department to reduce emissions and as a result of the carbon tax receipts, and will he make a statement on the matter?

It is fair to say that with the €3 billion the Government collects, what the Minister really did was head off to COP and sign us up to targets that we could never meet. We face fines of between €3 billion and €8 billion as a result. The Minister will be long gone into the sunset when that occurs. The hardship he has caused people who have bought electric vehicles is pretty dismal. They bought them in good faith that the Minister would put the infrastructure in place, having given them a very small partial grant, an…

They are better cars. yet the Minister is putting tariffs on Chinese cars at half the price. He really does not want people to drive them, does he? The Minister did put the cart before the horse. I am not denying that the transition will take place, but the reality is the Minister has left some people in a financially disadvantaged position because of his inability to provide the infrastructure. We have allowed the Chinese to flood the market with cars that are built at half the price, might I add, from coal-powere…

The reality is that, 20 years ago, the Green Party told everybody to buy diesel, that it was the energy of the future. The Green Party said that was the science. The science suddenly changed to buying electric. Now we are in a position where people bought electric but there is no infrastructure to support it. The electric cars are now coming from China at half the cost and are built with coal-fuelled energy. The Minister talks about suspicion. There is a delusion in this country that we are going to take the cleane…

That is the point, and the Minister needs to answer it. I am not stoking suspicion, I am stating a fact.

What is the euro rating of the trains?

What is the euro rating of the trains the Minister is proposing to carry these trucks on?

What are the euro ratings of the trains the Minister is proposing to put the clean trucks on? Answer that.

What is the euro rating of the trains?

The Minister does not have it.

Carers from all over County Wexford have asked me to make their position known. I have had calls from Duncannon, Duncormick, Kilmore, Rosslare, Oilgate, Enniscorthy, New Ross, Wexford town and all over County Wexford. They have asked me to represent the hurt, rage, disbelief and disappointment they feel at this Government’s choice not to reorganise and recognise their contribution and abolish the means test for carer's allowance. They feel their worth has not been acknowledged even though the Government has widened…

That does not mean they get it. It is means-tested.

Those were the carers’ words. I fully understand why they believe the Minister is speaking out of both sides of her mouth. It is a means test. It is on the means of someone else’s income, rather than that of the carer who is actually delivering the care. This is means-testing the income of the household. It may be means in which the carer does not even share. We are talking out of both sides of our mouths every day of the week when we talk about vulnerable women and 95% of our care is delivered by women. Yet the Mi…