On the same issue, workers and families are continuing to struggle under the cost of living crisis. In three weeks time, the Government plans to increase the price of petrol and diesel for those same families. This is the last day that we have to stop the plan for price increases on petrol and diesel. Petrol and diesel prices are way higher than they were just a few years ago and, as has been mentioned, we are bringing in more taxes on petrol and diesel than we have ever had. These price hikes are going to hit some of the most vulnerable people hardest. They are people on low incomes, people in rural communities and people who just need the car to go to a hospital appointment, drop their children at school, travel to work and so on. In three weeks time, the Government plans to increase petrol and diesel. We have made it very clear that all of these prices need to be kept under review. This is absolutely not the time to be increasing petrol and diesel. Not only does the Government plan to do it now, but it plans a further increase in October. Why does the Government not bring a resolution before this House and call off the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael price hike on petrol and diesel, which will kick in on 1 August?

In its alternative budget, Sinn Féin proposed that the excise reduction that happened should be restored in one go on 1 April of this year, unlike the Government’s step-by-step restoration. Under its plan, motorists would have seen a full 8% increase for petrol and a 6% increase for diesel on 1 April last. Once again, Sinn Féin proposes one thing in its budget proposals and then walks back from it a month later. There is no consistency in its approach.

We said it needed to be kept under review.

That is what you said in your budget. You would have done it all at once, back in April, with an 8% increase on petrol and a 6% increase on diesel. The Government took a different view. We wanted to try to reduce the pressures on the public, unlike the Sinn Féin proposal, and we will keep it under review.

You cannot keep it under review because this is the last day. You cannot keep it under review unless you recall the Dáil.

Páirtí an Lucht Oibre.

For clarification, is the Tánaiste suggesting a recall of the Dáil in the next three weeks because today is the last day that they can stop their price hikes?

You have been found out, Deputy.

You might clarify your own policy.

We have been very clear. We said we would keep it under review. Now is not the time to be jacking up prices.

That is not what you said six months ago.

Deputy Doherty should resume his seat. This is not on. I call Deputy Duncan Smith of Páirtí an Lucht Oibre.