That shite will make clane shit of your engine pal.Youd be better off putting Green in it.
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You what then?
Carbon tax rise to add €1.48 to filling tank of diesel
Carbon tax increases on fuel will go ahead on October 12 despite conflict on the issue among coalition partners, senior government sources predicted yesterday.
Opposition politicians as well as some within Fine Gael have called for a delay to the planned rise, under which the cost of a 60-litre tank of petrol will go up by €1.28 and of diesel by €1.48. It has already been agreed that the carbon tax increase on home heating oil will be delayed until May.
The cut in excise duty on motor fuels introduced by the government this year will remain in place after the September 27 budget. The current 20 per cent discount on public transport fares will be extended beyond the end-of-year deadline into 2023, government sources also confirmed.
“Nobody wants to be paying an increase in tax at the minute, but there will be a significant package to deal with the cost of living crisis,” a government source said, adding that it would be “disingenuous” to blame this year’s rise in fuel prices on the carbon tax.
“It’s the Ukraine war; carbon tax represents about one tenth of the price rise overall,” the source said.
On Twitter yesterday, Mary Lou McDonald, the Sinn Fein president, ratcheted up pressure on the cabinet. She said it was “incredible the government will increase carbon taxes at a time when families, workers and businesses struggle with energy and fuel costs”.
Childcare is said to be a priority for the government in the budget, with an aim to ensure that parents get a significant reduction in childcare bills. Roderic O’Gorman, the minister for children, has vowed to cut the cost of childcare by half over the next two budgets.
A meeting between officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Department of Health will be held on Wednesday. Health officials are keen to expand free GP care to children aged up to 12, but a government source speculated that this request will not be met “this year”. Instead it is likely that eligibility will be raised up to the age of nine.
As part of the budget preparations, Catherine Martin, the culture minister, is developing a framework to link arts funding to a new code of conduct for organisations, after reports of harassment in the sector.
Speak Up: A Call for Change, a recent report by the Irish Theatre Institute, found a majority of 1,300 respondents (70 per cent) had experienced or seen some form of harmful behaviour.
After the budget, conditions will be attached to public funding from the Arts Council and Screen Ireland in relation to dignity at work.
Martin said: “We now know from ITI’s report that perpetrators in these workplaces can be in positions of power, or that incidents are happening in organisations in receipt of public funding.
“The measures next year are designed to end this scourge. As part of my budget for next year, these initiatives will be funded.”
Good to know they have their priorities in order
Motion to allow nomination of this Government for the COTY similar to the MotM award to Kilkenny in 2008.
Agreed, 1.48 rise on the price of filling up a tank doesnt go far enough. Yes , the cost of childcare will be reduced significantly but we need to hammer cagers
What should the minister of arts be focussed on?
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She’s doing great work considering some of the turf munching Muldoons she has to deal with in government
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Should be higher grants for EVs
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I’d love to be with you in Narina, I really would.
Wtaf is happening to the record corpo tax receipts that they can’t provide free health care to children?
Their idea of an arts festival is the ploughing.
More use than forty crustys painting a rock in Connemara mind.
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Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
She has definitely broadened the scope of her brief, I think she’s been very good.
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Got my new smart meter installed last week by the ESB. What is the next step @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy?
irk everyone you know by being as preachy as possible
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The two drinks cost him more than it would have cost him to charge them at home
Give it three months and nobody will have power anyway so they won’t have to worry about the cost of electricity