Louise Byrne
speaker
598 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Louise Byrne’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was ninety five dollars one day last week, it was eighty dollars earlier this week.
So it's going up and down so much.
At the moment I bought petrol air earlier in the week, I think it was one hundred eighty-two a litre.
If that pe petrol price excise cut wasn't there, or if it was reversed earlier this month, that could have cost me, you know, 30 odd set more.
You could have been looking at over two euro a litre.
And that is the real question.
And the government is still on its s dull break.
The cabinet will be back in the coming weeks.
And then, like Chris said earlier, you're in the think-in season.
Yeah.
Mm probably more importantly, you're into the ploughing.
Which there'll be a lot of conversation from people at the ploughing about the cost of fuel.
And there is a concern.
What happens if the government starts to undo this?
What happens if at budget time we have this big ta tac tax package for people and people get, you know, quite modest increases in their wages, but yet they're paying for petrol.
And what ministers are privately telling John Drennan in this piece today is that Simon Harris could be in for untold trouble if that happens.
Yeah, and Alison's point is that this strategy was put out in the dying days.
of August and how seriously are the government actually taking this if they are putting it out in a time when not many people are engaging with the news, a lot of people are on holidays.
And Alison's point was yes, y we do need to talk about things like that, but is is it just the latest kind of fad?
Is it w like we see platitudes anytime a woman is killed and then very little action to actually follow it.
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