I am glad of the opportunity. It has been an awful time for the people of Ireland and it is not getting much better. Indeed, it has been an awful time for elected politicians, their families and workers. We were pegged around the place by friends and people of whom we thought a lot and people who thought a lot of us. We have been working for them for many years. I think it was what happened here on 24 March that kicked it off. There was a reduction of only 3 cent to help people with the cost of green diesel, which had gone up by 80 cent. There was only a reduction of 2 cent on kerosene, which had gone up by 80 cent, too. To throw petrol on the fire, some time around April Fool's Day, the Minister, Deputy McEntee, went to Ukraine and gave it €40 million. People started to go mad and they are mad. They are hard-living and hard-working people, including nurses and carers. It was a cross-section of the community. It was coming from every angle. That is the God's gospel truth. People are still very hurt. What I said that day was that however much more oil was costing, I knew it would have to be paid but the Government would have to forgo the extra taxes at the pump where people were paying for it. I said the Government should reduce it and not make work for itself with applications. The people were going to be in trouble filling out application forms, as they are with every other application. Many people are denied after going to the trouble of applying and the Government is giving them false hope. I said to the Government to give that money back at the pumps. People complain about all the money that is wasted. They are right to do so. A lot of money is being wasted. We went down for €1.9 billion of a loan for the Ukrainians to keep the war going. That was on top of the €125 million that was given to President Zelenskyy. People say to me that RTÉ, when it was in trouble, got €725 million from the Government.

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The Government's response to all the people of Ireland who are in trouble is to provide €755 million.

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RTÉ is only one organisation or one company. It is not fair what is happening, or what has happened, to our people.

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Did they help us when we were in trouble starving in the Famine?

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See after our own people first, please.

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I am saying enough is enough. We are not in the war with Russia.

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