Thomas Byrne
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285 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 5d ago
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I think we have to look...
at all of the at the situation of people who are clearly struggling struggling to pay bills and we need to make sure first of all that people are in employment and that we use every lever possible to reduce those bills and i know when i say it that we need to continue really hard in the direction of renewables people say oh we can't do that but we have to do it because it's the only way to remove the dependencies that we have on on the middle eastern
I'm certainly not going to rule it out, but I think it would be a case that it would be at budget time because the government can't just keep changing its position every few weeks.
What I would say on that is, first of all, I mean, the reduction in the VAT for the hospitality sector is something that's welcomed by that sector.
I mean, that was a program for government commitment.
Fine Gael obviously had it in their manifesto, it was negotiated and it was agreed to as part of the program for government commitment.
We had to do it.
But this year it's 230 something million.
It would be a drop in the ocean if you wanted to sort of give fuel supports out of that.
We have, let's not forget, we have reduced diesel taxes quite significantly actually.
The price would be much higher, the market price is higher, but we're down near our mid-table now in terms of the taxation that we take from it because we've reduced it very, very significantly.
We've also extended the fuel allowance season as well to give people a bit of help in the immediate aftermath of this crisis.
But we cannot... No government can chop and change every couple of weeks in this.
I think we should wait for the budget and we should wait to see... But you did chop and change.
Well, because of the emergency circumstances that were there at the time, particularly in the cost of fuel.
So we did that.
Like, if we hadn't reduced...
It would be significantly higher now.
And that is a benefit that accrues to everybody across the country.
And there's a package there for farmers.
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