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Cormac McBreen

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
240 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

There's brand new tractors out there that doesn't have 100 hours.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

There's a digger there with 180 hours on it.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

A 240 Komatsu worth about 200 grand.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

There's a brand new Fusion baler sitting in the shed.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

There's not even a bale on it yet.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

That's going.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

The other baler.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

Every single machine in my yard is going, except I do a little bit.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

in a local quarry so I'll keep a couple of things to keep my own employees battened down.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

I am promising my employees in my yard, my top men, the top women in the office that I'm going to try my best to keep them going for the next 10, 20 years even if we hit a recession.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

So I am recession proofing my business today and that was a decision that was made by the package the government came out.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

So if the government think that's a good package, fair enough to them.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

It won't be sustainable for me, and I'm not hanging about to wait and find out, like in 2008, when I learned valuable lessons about recessions.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

You know, have you ever been... No offence, hold on a second, let's just jump in there.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

Well, do you ever hear the saying back when you're a youngster that someone's stupid enough to walk into a parked car?

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

All the tractors and everything else was parked in the middle of O'Connell Street and moved in there by the guards and strategically parked out of the way and out of danger.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

So nobody actually... You can't hurt someone with a machine that's turned off.

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

Can I answer that one?

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

Can I answer that one?

Liveline
Fuel Protests & the Cost of Living

Can I answer you?