The excise duty is 4 cent.
TDs / Pearse Doherty
Pearse Doherty
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It is in your table.
Do not be a numpty all your life. It is in your table
I move amendment No. 1:
In paragraph (1), to delete the table proposed to be inserted by subparagraph (a) and substitute the following:
"TABLE
RATE OF NATURAL GAS CARBON TAX
".
I move that:
That Dáil Éireann:
recognises that:
— unsustainably high energy and fuel prices in this state further compounded a pre-existing cost of living crisis;
— the duty of the Government is to protect people from severe energy shocks to the greatest extent possible; and
— the Government has the ability to cut the cost of fuel;
notes that:
— home heating oil has hit the highest price on record going back …
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More spin and more deflection from the Minister. What he says is nonsense. Everybody knows what happened. We have led on this issue. We put forward an amendment that would have seen the maximum reduction in the price of diesel for people and the same reduction for petrol and would have seen excise duty completely removed from home heating oil, the cost of which has nearly doubled in four weeks. What did the Tánaiste …
That is leadership and that is what we will continue to fight for on behalf of hundreds of thousands of people right across this State.
I did not say that.
What do you say to that woman who does not get it?
What do you say to that woman who does not get it?
Business Post authors said that.
The Business Post -----
Are you calling out the three journalists in the Business Post?
Is that what you are doing?
Is that what you are doing?
It is not.
There is. Do not be stupid.
Will I show you the manual?
Do you not know that mineral oil tax is excise?
Are you serious?
The Minister for Finance bizarrely claimed, in an attempt to defend abandoning 750,000 households who rely on home heating oil, that there is no excise duty on home heating oil. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle may remind the same Minister for Finance what he told the Dáil just a few weeks ago, which was that liquid fuel for motor or heating purposes is subject to excise duty in the form of mineral oil tax. If the Minister …
You are caught out.
You are caught out.