Mattie McGrath criticises carbon tax and rising fuel costs

Minister, I'm glad that you're here because I have some questions and I was here earlier in the chair and I listened intently to your opening speech. Minister, look, what's happening is just unbelievable. It's bizarre, it's goobo, grotesque, un-presented, bizarre, I can't think of the last word that was in that goobo days back in the 80s. We're here again. I mean, the people cannot survive and I can't understand the disconnect and why your backbenchers are not telling you are they in hiding because the people are infuriated with the cost of living. I mean, and we've been, and I want to debunk one thing, the war is horrific and outrageous what's happening, but this crisis was heading towards us and a Gale Force 9 storm before ever there was a shot fired or a troop landed anywhere near Ukraine by Russia. It was here, a perfectly storm was coming and you assisted in putting in the carbon tax. And I want to ask you one question, Keshtar Warren, why did you knock, I was out of voting again for 10 years from 2020 to 2030, you can put carbon tax up every budget, whatever, any recourse to this house, any discussion, any debate or any vote. I also want to ask you, Minister, please, because a businessman, my constitution, William Allen, rang me and asked me this this evening. When the diesel was 160, you were on it. If the diesel is 260, you have 120 cents, and if the diesel goes to 360, which it could, you're going to have 180. So the more it goes up, the more you're taken in. I want to answer that honestly and tell me I'm wrong, as I've asked you to do, the minister, and he acknowledged when you were, wasn't here. So this is, this is daylight robbery, daylight robbery, and you're rubbing your hands like the fat pig going to the market on a man in the fair, rubbing his hands and, and, and, and, um, making money on people's misery. Can't believe it. And you're happy to, the rises to go up. You put a carbon tax vote here, which I voted against. You, you put another one through in April. I want to ask a question as well. Will you, will you change your mind now on that? We have to change direction completely. We're at unprecedented times, and that's one of the words in Google too, but we are, and it's a war situation. And I don't remember the last war, but I remember people telling me about the compulsory tillage and everything else. You've been to the McConnell during the week, saying we're going to have, ask farmers, we're going to have a plan. And the family organization met him last night. These are not my words. Damning criticism of him and his officials. He had no plan. He had nothing discussed. What do you do? Something that Michal Martin, our Taoiseach, will go down in history for, a legacy of, set up a committee. A committee, a commission, a board of inquiry. He's at it since he was Minister for Health back in the 80s, and he's continuing at it. More papers and more boards and more members on, board members being paid, and nothing done. A committee, imagine. Minister, I welcome some of the situations around this. I welcome the thousand euro. But I discussed it. I despised the wedge was leaked from Cabinet, and leaked around to people, and people would get it, and they wouldn't get it, and they won't get it, and they will get it. I mean, you're dividing people, and dividing and conquering. And, you know, all the players, and it's even COVID. A lot of things happened. I want to support everyone and sympathise anyone who lost their life. But we're throwing money around like confetti at a wake. I remember the night you brought him the pub payment. I offered you here, and I begged you to put it on the PPS, what they were earning. Students who were earning maybe 80 quid the weekend got the full COVID payment. And I know as an employer now that your PSI records are there at the fingertip. It's paid every week now. It wasn't five or six years ago, and you could have done. And now payback time is coming, with a double whammy of the oil crisis and the war. So we're really going to be crucified, the people. I know it's Lent, and Holy Week is coming, and Good Friday is coming, but don't crucify all the people. We're going to crucify all the people. Please, where is the compassion? Where is your moral compass? Where is your respect for the electorate? I told your boss, not your boss, you have so many bosses in the government now, it's kind of the three stoogies. One of them was today, we have another one here tomorrow, I suppose Minister Ryan. Minister Martin today, Tisha Martin, sorry, I told him today, I will, Tisha sometimes, and I asked him, I said, look, I said, you're respecting and honouring and bowing down to the globalists and to the elite in Europe, and you're not serving the people. We also talked to Dolly, our servants of the people, the messenger of the people, to do good for the people, and if we can't do good, don't do bad. And you went high, high to Europe. How come Sweden, how come Denmark, how come Poland were able to bring back the oil prices to 2018 level? We're here telling you, we're not going near that. The Paltry thing you came up with last night, 20 cents on road diesel. Some people put it up by 20 cents, and I condemned that, I condemned that fundamentally, it's a horrible thing to do, price gouging. But you leaked it, why didn't you take this decision and just announce it straight away, and they couldn't put up the price. Went up by more than 20 cents in places last night, and today, went up three times in one film station than I know today. So, he did put, he put 15 cent, trillion petrol, sorry, 15 on road diesel. The Hollyhurst, I said it today again to the Taoiseach, the lorries will be abandoned in the yards. They'll be broke down in the yard, because the ad blue, that you have to have for the green energy, you don't put that into them, they'll stop on the road anyway. They'll be left on the road. And where will our, and Minister Martin didn't reply to my question today, Taoiseach Martin, but he said that, oh, the holidays are great, they export all the stuff in Europe, buy all the stuff out of us. We paid a big high price for the support from Europe, and they're not very supportive of us, they weren't in Brexit, and they weren't in many other areas either, but we have sold our sovereignty. We've sold, I don't know what we've left, we've everything sold by the kitchen sink in this country, and what we haven't sold, you've never sold before, you'll run out of government. And it'll be a long time before you'll be back into government again, and this is nothing personal to you. Also, then you come down to the FCI, and the farm contractors, and the fellow Maury Gullier, the farmers of Ireland, get them to plough mower. Do you know what costs 300 euro now to fill an average tractor? And that won't, only for a day, that wouldn't last them. And you've got the ad blue, they're modern tractors as well, ad blue. And I read, I've seen one I remember, and I got an email in here, where the Greens had suggested an EU levy, a directive, that you couldn't plough up the hill. You could only plough down the hill. The people that come up with those kind of bunkum, you're going to drive up Ireland and live to plough and sit down again. I often did that myself, in high, dangerous land where you couldn't plough up the hill, but you couldn't plough up the hill, you're going to be stopped. You stop people ploughing, you stop people setting corn. We had a set-aside policy, you weren't involved in that, but you're part of it, well. That was an awful attack on nature, spraying off a bird or a bee or an insect couldn't live in it. And you closed the sugar, or you didn't, but Fina Fawn closed the sugar factory. The biggest mistake was ever made. And here we are now again, dismantling the fishing industry and giving them compensation. That horrible, dirty word, compensation, to scrap their vehicles. Who's going to feed the people with fish, our natural resource that we have sold so much of it off? Who's going to be able to plough and sow and spray and mine the hillish crops and then harvest them and reap them, if they haven't the fuel to do it? You can't buy, and I didn't go out at home eating, I can't believe that you didn't do anything at home in Heaton Isle, because the folly of Minister Ryan and his directors and department directors is you can't build a house now with a chimney in it. People are going to freeze inside the house, they can't buy a kettle. They can't even light up, if they haven't, if gas, depending on ESP. And if we get minus 10 or 12, the heat pumps, the air to heat will stop. And we know that from the last big freeze we had in 2010. So, Karyen and Mifasta gone with us, you're absent, and you're missing in action, and you're persecuting the people, and I don't know what kind of death-wisher you have to get the people. Cromwell wasn't as bad. He tried to get people, and now we resisted around to Cromwell, and he told people the hell out of the Connaught. You're giving them no place to go to, no place to go to. There's land in Kerry and Donegal and many other counties, that's not out of the land, you're good and proud. There's land in my own, and the Valley of the Shure, and the owner was always boasting that in the 47th, when it had compulsory ploughan, and he had 300 Irish acres of land, he's Tosha Imaha Nish, or she boss, Michal Morrissey, and he was always boasting that there was three fields he didn't have to plough, because it was the wet land, an inch land, and a flood. So, now, you're not taking into that at all. Minister McConnell is in dreamland. He came up with this dream. The FAM organization, the Mocking Affirmary, is welcome, condemning what happened. We didn't expect action. An empty room, empty heads, no ideas, nothing, no vision, no passion, no, no, nothing. Oh, we'll set up a committee, and then meet Friday. Imagine, in the middle of a crisis. That was here long before a bullet, as I said, was fired in Ukraine, and a soldier moved next to me, so you can blame that. You're blaming COVID for everything with the last two years, and as far as I'm concerned, it was overkill totally. The narrative was driven by the media, and we're going to allow the narrative, and where, the narrative is now going to be driven in this war by the media again. What's the government supposed to do? The government, and Michal Martin, T-shirt Martin, was talking today, said, no, but no, no, citizens' assembly. This is a citizens' assembly. I'm sure. I have the privilege of being elected for the time being here, and so have you. This is a citizens' assembly. Now, I have no mind, and the cost of them, no talk about that. The waste of money is just phenomenal, and you just won't... You close down all the peat plants, the coal bonding stations. We asked Deputy Healy Ray, myself, Danny Healy Ray, last week, asked T-shirt Martin Rody, re-examine the LNG gas plant. No. Will he go and try and do some harvesting at sea? No. We're 10 years away from any real solar energy and wave energy. We're going to be perished with the coal. We'll have three coats in us. I was here this evening, I got in the chair, everything went off by the lights. A technical glitch. And we're all going technical now. And switches for this, and switches for that. And we can't light a fire. We can't cut the enemy fascicle. We can't get the kippens. And the back of Leschnach, that I remember an old lady in Newcastle, Dorsey, kind of gathering it, and keeping the fire warm. And there's plenty of timber out there. But Minister Ryan doesn't want to cut it. He wants to make window boxes out of it. South-facing ones. And put carrot seeds and put everyone else into it. Listen. And that's his due. And we all know what he thinks about people. But why are he blindly leading him, allowing them to be let alone by the nose, by the Greens? The whole climate change, again, I'm not a Chinese denier, but it's another big hoax. And it punished the people. Carbon tax is a punitive tax and it affects the poor, the fuel poverty people more than anything else. So, it's one fiesta after another. And you were here last week and you insulted us and said we didn't cost anything. I asked you about the Children's Hospital, the dark black hole that was built in the wrong place. The political decision by your leader and by others to build it there. And it's still not heard of the hole. And it's going to cost billions. The National Broadband Plant cost billions. You're going to bring water from the Shannon right to the best of the land that we're going to plough and till and have grass in. Bring water to Dublin to put it into a pipe system. There's a leak in 58% of the water. Independent studies have shown. Kindergarten children wouldn't behave like this. Instead of people, you'd behave like this in the National Parliament. And the teacher was going off somewhere. I don't know how he said he was having the summer today. It's not a summer, it's all just a kind of a gathering. We're welded to the globalists. We're welded to the EU masters. And they say jump. The teacher says hi and you're the same. And you're Minister Cobley going to build about conferences. And God knows where else. One world order is the next thing. Well, we won't have enough to eat. And can I ask you, Minister, in the middle of it all, the capital hanging on sand was informed yesterday that ESP, they made 620 million profit last year. And they're pleasing people with charges. And the PSO levy being pleased at customers. And going to pay wind turbines when the wind isn't blowing when it's sunshine. And they're stopped. And when the wind is blowing to your eyes, they've turned them off. If that's not thunder of the people, and ESP should be held to account, they're a semi-state body, you get them in here and tell them, this makes profit, yeah, 10 million or whatever. 620 million. More than 2 million a day. And people can't pay the bills. The bills in restaurants, the bills in pubs, the bills in any catering industry. Now, I've just gone, and I've mentioned the homes and the houses and the schools and the voluntary board of managers are trying to collect it. So, I don't know, you've lost all sense of perspective reality. And the more you put on the taxes, the higher the fuel goes, the better you like it. The forces and the fake economy, then, that your tenants worth such a GDP rate, everything. On the back, the blood and sweat of the people. People can't travel, they have to travel to work, they won't be able to go to work. Builders will be stopped, construction sites will be stopped, machines will be packed up because people can't afford to do it. They have contracts, tinders, contracts for jobs, fixed prices. They're in a palace situation and all you do is go off over to whatever you pick from City, I don't know, it was a Venice or someplace you picked, to have an informal meeting, not a formal meeting at all. What's going on behind these closed doors is what I'd love to know. And what's going on at Bilderberg? And what's going on in other global meetings and with the globalists that you're connected to, Fina Gail Weatherton, and now Tito Martin running after you, trying to be as good as you. Because he'll get a fat job in Europe when he's run out of this government and ran out of this parliament by the people. He'll no doubt be painted to Europe like many others out here. And I could name someone, but I won't. And this is what shame, shame on you to do this and we're voting against this and I didn't even talk about the bill you're bringing in tonight for the extract duty. We have amendments submitted and we haven't seen sight of the amendments yet. Not even yet at this time of night and we'll debate that in 20 minutes. Go back out.