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alternative budget, we propose an installation aid establishment payment of €10,000 per farmer. Irish farmers are feeling the effects of the fuel crisis, with the price of green diesel skyrocketing. The Minister should do what we called for in our alternative budget, which was to reduce … intervene now, we will lose a massive part of our heritage. As the Minister knows, inshore fishermen are already struggling with fuel and baits. Their cost to go out to sea has increased massively while, at the same time, they are not getting a fair price for their

unjustifiable. Where is the urgency? Why is this Government so patient with those who let homes rot in the middle of a housing crisis? Fuel prices have hit people very hard this year. What was desperately needed was a targeted energy credit of €400 for households with … that will help us meet our climate targets, avoid massive fines and protect households from this energy shock and this cost-of-living crisis but also from the next energy shock. The Bill raises the tax-free limit on selling solar power back to the grid from

withdrawn from vulnerable patients yet there was no mention from either Minister of what is happening. We are in the middle of climate crisis and a summer of intense heat and now rainfall, yet our active travel budget is being cut, as my colleague Deputy Ahern has just … ever it was needed, that high energy prices are here to stay. Ireland is suffering a bigger hit now than in the fuel crisis of the 1970s. This is the tenth budget since Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael hooked up. In that time we have seen €27 billion

working person in this country because of the Government. I was the first person to bring a truck into this Dáil during the fuel crisis when I stood with the truckers. I have tried to come up with a business approach for these Departments that never

would he not help people outside of himself? For God’s sake, he talks about 1%. Did he not see the fuel crisis recently? How many people were on the road trying to feed him? How many of those people are struggling to keep going? I listened

frustrated that some of the renewable projects are still with An Coimisiún Pleanála, for example. We have an energy crisis. Our dependency on fossil fuels creates unreliability in energy supply that is really problematic. Anything we can do to make sure that we optimise the energy generated

particular promise to the families. The reason that the country is coming to standstill tomorrow is the cost-of-living crisis. Housing, electricity, gas and other fuels have increased in cost by 9.5% over the last 12 months. The Government is, in general, in large part responsible

need to understand why we have to take so much tax out of every €10 worth of fuel. This is a problem that is contributing to the cost-of-living crisis. Let us look at the increase that people living alone or old age pensioners are receiving

January. We are discouraging people from using public transport and prolonging our reliance on expensive and volatile fossil fuels in the middle of a cost-of-living and climate crisis. The active travel budget of €360 million has not changed since 2020, meaning this amounts … risk of energy poverty, transformed active travel around the country and shown that it is actually committed to reducing our exposure to fossil fuel price shocks, but it made a political choice

cover this. I would be cautious of a moratorium. We are in the middle of an energy crisis at the moment, brought on by our dependence on fossil fuels

have raised this for months. The Minister of State, Deputy Dooley, must know the scale of the crisis for inshore fishermen all around the coast in terms of fuel, baits and the instability of market prices. The Minister is reading the responses written by Department officials

response to heightened fuel prices. As a Government, we do not control the wholesale price of oil or home heating oil, but we have acted in a very significant way to assist households with the real impacts of the current energy crisis. The Sinn Féin Private Members' motion … have done since the outset of this crisis, we will continue to keep the situation under review in the time ahead. We will continue to respond in a way that protects those most vulnerable to fuel poverty. For the reasons I have stated, I again press the Government

ambitious but instead opted for a series of modest measures that would be quickly swallowed up by the huge cost-of-living crisis. Despite record tax receipts and substantial budget surpluses, families, workers, pensioners, farmers and small business people will continue to experience financial pressures. There was little … robbing Peter to pay Paul. The cost of living, fuel and energy are just so expensive. Why does the Government have to take almost 50% out of every litre of petrol? All I wanted when this crisis arose with Iran was a cap so that we would have

fossil fuels that are hurting families is wrong. It misleads the public as to why fuel prices are increasing and, in a cruel irony, it makes households more vulnerable to the next crisis. The Dáil passed that resolution on Tuesday. By Saturday, the cost of home heating … Siberia or until President Trump has his next tantrum in the White House? It is not a question of "if" with fossil fuels; it is a question of "when". We have a huge energy affordability problem in this country. The problem is not the carbon

function. The vast majority of that energy is still in the form of fossil fuels. So many households are still dependent on fossil fuels, and there is no better example of that than home-heating oil. As a result of this reliance on imports … blown energy crisis and an accelerating cost-of-living crisis and all of that is happening against the backdrop of climate breakdown brought about by the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from the combustion of fossil fuels. Extreme weather patterns, the collapse of ecosystems, rising

crisis. I am conscious that when we are talking about a cost-of-living crisis, it is rents, mortgages, groceries, insurance and across the board, but it is also the cost of fuel - petrol, diesel, home heating oil and all of the other fuels. All the Minister … doing in this financial resolution is extend the temporary reductions. It is the same with the carbon taxes on solid fuel, which he is suspending until 2027. That is not going to be enough. We will take petrol and diesel first. There are pumps today, as I stand

beart faoi na táillí seasta iomarcacha ach níl dada sa cháinaisnéis seo faoi sin. The same failure can be seen in relation to fuel. A fill of home heating oil, and I have told the Minister many times, is now over €700 dearer than … acknowledged time and again that reductions in fuel prices help reduce inflation because, when diesel prices rise, transport and business costs and food prices rise, and eventually that bill lands with workers and families. Behind today's crisis is also a deeper failure. For years now, we have

adopt Labour’s proposal to slap a windfall tax on the big corporations and data centres that are profiteering during this energy crisis. That tax could have funded targeted energy credits for households struggling to pay bills. We have set out that plan in detail to help … continuing to subsidise fossil fuels. On the other, it is making it more expensive to use public transport. It is not helping households to reduce either transport or energy bills. It has no ambition on climate. Its strategy for tackling the energy crisis, like its national economic strategy

which, at its heart, is a cost-of-energy crisis. At a time of energy insecurity, climate instability and rising household costs, every major budget decision should be taken to help people reduce their dependence on expensive fossil fuels. The response of the Government should have been … been announced this afternoon points towards a Government that does not see and does not understand the impact the cost-of-energy crisis has on large parts of our society. First, there is the Government's failure to make provision for targeted energy credits, the most effective

problem is that an announcement was made in the budget of €20 million. When we consider the scale of the crisis in our fishing community, that would not even scratch the surface. The problem is also that the inshore fishermen and the islands fishermen do not have … Adjustment Reserve Fund. They did not get any fuel subsidy or tie-up scheme. They got nothing because they were not affected in the way the offshore sector was, but they were affected by prices going up and the crisis. I am genuinely appealing to the Minister that

fuels scheduled to increase on 14 October 2026, this will now be deferred until 1 May 2027. The decisions taken by the Government in the past few days provide certainty for households and businesses coming into the winter. As the Government has done throughout this crisis, we have … important part of our climate action strategy. The decision to reduce the carbon tax on kerosene pauses budget increases on auto fuels and other increases has not been taken lightly. The carbon tax trajectory provides incentives to industry to decarbonise by virtue of the certainty. In light

revolt over landlordism and the housing crisis. Absolutely nothing changes in this country or anywhere else through polite budget submissions. It never did and it never will. It is power that yields results. We saw this with the fuel protest, which helped a certain number of people around

disabled people. It is not a budget for any of us - which is all of us - who will be affected by the climate crisis. Instead, it is a budget for landlords and a budget for big business, which has seen substantial tax cuts. Interestingly, and very concerningly … even introduce a €500 electricity energy credit and certainly refused to introduce any measures to get us away from reliance on fossil fuels. People will be worse off next year as a result of this budget because, as has been outlined, even in the best-case scenario workers

last 20 minutes, or at most maybe once or twice. The most effective way to bring about an end to current pressures on fuel prices is through a de-escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. The disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, through which … international energy markets. Ireland continues to use its diplomatic influence wherever possible but we must recognise our influence alone cannot resolve this crisis. However, that does not mean the Government cannot or will not respond. We have responded and we will continue to do so. As I have

week and she bought out of the same list at the same shop as she did the week before. That is the crisis situation we have and that the Government did not take into account. Pensioners will say that they are feeling the pinch. They are afraid … That is nowhere near what they are hitting. They are experiencing savage expense every week when they are out there, especially on fuel and day-to-day costs. They genuinely cannot work and their pension has been stretched to the extreme limit. Am I correct in saying that