Thomas Byrne
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285 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5d ago
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We cannot drink enough whiskey in this country to keep all the distilleries going.
We need to sell it abroad.
That would be the case, but that's not necessarily the case yet.
We'll wait and see.
Well, I think we wanted to make sure, first of all, with hauliers, I mean, they were deemed to be a priority at the very, very start because, again, just like I said, the country's an exporting economy.
We need to get product, a physical product, out of the country and that needs lorry drivers.
So at the very start of this fuel shock, I think the Taoiseach and others identified that the position of hauliers was not just...
extremely difficult for them.
But if they had those difficulties, then it becomes extremely difficult for the rest of the country in terms of people who work in exporting industries, which is a huge part of the country.
So decisions were made to do that.
There were decisions made around agricultural diesel as well.
And then subsequently, a decision made to bring in a rebate for agriculture.
Because they have to have some support in order to keep those industries going, which are absolutely essential, as I said, haulage and agriculture in terms of the food supply industry.
to keep them going through the difficulties that they had.
So significant supports were brought in for them and I would encourage farmers and contractors and indeed hauliers to look at the details of that.
Just to be clear, they're going to have a window during May, particularly on the farming side and the contractor side, to apply for this support.
Yeah, and that is a very, very serious issue.
We've seen before when electricity prices in particular went up dramatically during the Ukraine, the invasion of Ukraine, because of the price of natural gas, that we did bring in supports.
And I certainly can't rule out the bringing in of those types of supports again if that proves necessary.
I think that is necessary.
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