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auto diesel and marked gas oil, MGO. Inclusive of the reduction in the NORA levy, these changes save consumers and businesses 27 cent per litre of petrol, 32 cent per litre of auto diesel and 7.4 cent per litre of MGO. It is perhaps because of those reasons

targeted supports. The Government reduced the tax on MGO by 5.4 cent a litre, and the NORA levy by another 2 cent per litre. On top on that, the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine implemented a comprehensive €100 million fuel income support scheme to assist farmers … agricultural contractors and the fishing sector facing unprecedented increases in fuel costs, which gave a support rate equivalent to approximately 20 cent per litre of green diesel. This Government has been doing its best for farmers and the agricultural sector. I have no doubt that it will continue

carrying on the trade of farming. In effect, this keeps carbon tax on marked diesel fixed at a rate of just 4 cent per litre for the farming sector. That is the rate that applied in 2012. As Deputies will be aware, the Minister for agriculture acted … scheme provides €20 million per month in supports. Farmers and agricultural contractors benefit from a support rate equivalent to approximately 20 cent per litre of marked gas oil used based on the verified fuel consumption in 2025. This targeted and practical support package ensured those most exposed

have risen from about $69 a barrel in February last to about $104 in May, while gas prices increased from €32 to €47 per megawatt hour. These are very significant increases. In the last budget we brought in a series of measures under social protection to protect … earlier this year were limited temporary measures in respect of reducing the excise by 27 cent a litre on petrol and 32 cent per litre on diesel, 7.4% in terms of marked oil, and other measures we took in terms of hauliers, contractors and so on. The cost

portion. The rate of the carbon tax relief for biofuels such as HVO used in place of auto diesel is around 23 cent per litre on a VAT inclusive basis. This, it must be acknowledged, is already a significant relief. As biofuels are relieved of the carbon component

issue is that it is within his gift to take all the carbon tax off home heating oil. That is about 16 cent per litre. We charge VAT on top of the carbon tax so it would reduce the cost of a fill by €183. Would that undo

hard facts and the prices that are advertised and people are paying contradict that. Before the energy crisis, kerosene was approximately 95 cent per litre. This week in Laois, the cost is €1.68 per litre. For households which are under pressure and cannot afford

Actually, when you look at it overall it is approximately 7 cent per litre. In fairness, the question put by the Deputy relates to progress with the establishment of the scheme for construction contractors that are not covered under the other two schemes. On foot of the Deputy

per cent in August, 2026 alone, and are up by 77 per cent year-on-year; — retail electricity prices in Ireland were already the highest in Europe, with households paying an average of €480 per year more than the European Union (EU) average; — retail electricity prices continue … increases in recent weeks, some of these increases in the double digits; — a 1,000-litre fill of home heating oil now costs approximately €1,600, up more than 60 per cent in just the past year alone; — according to the Central Statistics Office, the cost of household

litres of home heating kerosene. That is not sustainable. What the Government does not say out loud is that despite every excise reduction that it has made during this crisis, namely the 15 cent and 12 cent in respect of petrol and diesel and the 3 cent … cent in respect of green diesel, not one cent was taken off the price of kerosene. There is a simple reason for that. It is because there is a non-carbon tax on the mineral oil and kerosene, the rate of which is zero. The Government decided that

diesel are to be restored from 1 November 2026 to the end of February 2027, including the effective date and the cent per litre increase at each stage for both petrol and diesel; the current cent per litre value of the temporary reduction remaining in place for each

Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the additional VAT receipts accruing to the Exchequer for each one cent per litre increase in the pre-tax price of petrol and diesel; and the total additional VAT collected on road fuels in 2026 to date