The Minister for Finance bizarrely claimed, in an attempt to defend abandoning 750,000 households who rely on home heating oil, that there is no excise duty on home heating oil. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle may remind the same Minister for Finance what he told the Dáil just a few weeks ago, which was that liquid fuel for motor or heating purposes is subject to excise duty in the form of mineral oil tax. If the Minister for Finance is not aware of these basic facts, I will send him the Revenue manual later. On the issue I want to raise today, the people of Donegal are being abandoned once again. On Sunday we will lose our midday flights, which are crucial for connectivity between Donegal and Dublin. Cancer campaigners have fought bravely to get the Government to see sense after it entered into a contract with an airline that will see the ending of these flights on Sunday. The campaigners were given to believe in commitments from the Government that decisions would be made last week but this can has been very firmly kicked down the road for a number of more weeks. On behalf of all of those, in particular cancer patients, who rely on these midday flights that will not now operate, when will the Government make a decision? Will the Government commit that the midday flights will return to Donegal and that the aircraft will be grounded overnight in the county?

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You are caught out.

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You are caught out.

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You are caught out.

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You are caught out.

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Admit when you are wrong.

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You are the Minister for Finance and you do not even know what the Revenue-----

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Admit when you are wrong.

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Blame all you want.

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I am blushing for the Tánaiste.

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