What is it going to take to get the Taoiseach and his Government to act to help our people, from our elderly to our children? The paltry efforts being talked about now include the reduction of 20 cent a litre in the price of petrol, 15 cent a litre for road diesel, 2 cent a litre, which is an insult, for green diesel, the price of which has more than doubled in the past year, and nothing for home heating oil. This is an insult to the people we are supposed to represent. The Taoiseach is more beholden to Europe and to globalists than he is to serving the people of Ireland. That is quite evident in that he will not act. He has quoted European laws for VAT and everything else. How can other countries such as Poland, Sweden and Denmark bring down the cost of oil to 2018 prices, while we cannot do anything because of the high masters in Europe whom the Taoiseach must adore, along with honouring the globalists? That is what is wrong. The Government is in the pockets of the globalists and to hell with the people. Does the Government want the road hauliers to pull in on the side of the roads and to have no food delivered and the tractors to be parked in the fields not sowing or reaping? That is what is going to happen. The Government is staring this in the face and it will not look at it and will not see it. The Taoiseach should get out, meet the people and see what is going on.

The beef, milk, pharmaceuticals and technology products produced and manufactured in Tipperary are exported to every member state of the EU and all over the world.

You will not-----

Ireland depends on a global free trade environment.

The lackeys of Europe.

The Deputy should know that.

The lackeys of Europe and the globalists.

Deputy McGrath, please. Let the Taoiseach answer.

It is the same within the EU. That is the bottom line and most people with a bit of common sense know that too. We need less of that kind of rhetoric and so on.

Múinteoir scoile.

Please, Deputy. I call Deputy Pringle.