Sean Defoe
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707 appearances
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2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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For any vehicles over 21 that they might have in the fleet, it's €300 per vehicle, which is up from €200 the last time.
And having crunched the numbers, the Department of Transport says that the average licensed haulier, they say, has 17 vehicles in their fleet, which would mean a payment of €16,230 a month between now and July and then also backdated to March.
So there's a few other bits going before ministers today.
I think one of the more interesting or novel ones that we're seeing is a memo from Dara Kaliri, the Social Protection Minister, on a domestic violence travel supplement.
This is going to be a new financial support that will be available to people fleeing domestic violence to meet their immediate travel needs, whether I suppose that's getting away from a particularly abusive relationship.
Perhaps they are
working in the area that they had lived and will now need to commute somewhere.
It'll be modeled off the rent supplement and it's not going to be means tested for the first three months with then an option for people to apply for a further three months that would be means tested.
It's also not a set amount.
So they're taking applications for this as it comes and basically depending on what the travel need is.
They will adjust the amount they're paid.
The only, I suppose, caveat for people who find themselves in such a really difficult situation trying to get away from an abusive relationship is that they need to prove it, essentially.
They need to confirm that through either a referral from a COON-funded service provider that they maybe have been engaging with, a copy of a court order or written evidence from the likes of a GP as well.
So there is a little bit of red tape to it.
But it's something that they think along with the like to say the supplementary welfare allowance, which already exists for hotel accommodation in an emergency scenario.
It will just give that extra bit of help if people are maybe they're in an abusive relationship and subject to coercive control when it comes to the finances.
There's a lot of difficult situations like that.
And that's going to get the nod from Cabinet today.
The Claire Byrne Show · Reaction as the government wins its confidence vote last night · 15 Apr 2026
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Yeah, it certainly caught the ministers, the Taoiseach and the Tawnis to all on the hop.
You could kind of see a build-up to it happening as Mary Butler, the Chief Whip, consulted with Michael Healy-Ray a number of times yesterday in the Dáil Chamber just before he
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