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?

On a point of clarification, I have a table I can show Deputy Doherty which states mineral oil tax non-carbon, in other words what we refer to as-----

You are caught out.

It is zero euro and zero cent.

You are caught out.

Carbon tax, which Sinn Féin wants to abolish-----

You are caught out.

-----but the rest of the Opposition does not and the NORA levy, which we have got rid of-----

You are caught out.

I will send Deputy Doherty a copy after Leaders' Questions because this is one of three errors he has made this week.

Admit when you are wrong.

Quite frankly, a little bit of competency after 16 years as our country's Opposition spokesperson on finance would be helpful.

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

I thank Deputy Doherty for that.

Admit when you are wrong.

It is there for anybody to read that it is zero euro and zero cent.

Blame all you want.

The Deputy is protesting too much now.

I will make it available to the Deputy.

I am blushing for the Tánaiste.

Bring back in the football; that is all I can say. Deputy Lawlor, please.

Sorry, on the very important issue of Donegal-----

Thank you, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Sorry. My apologies to Deputy Lawlor but there was also a very important issue in relation to Donegal. I just needed to correct that issue. In relation to the Donegal-Dublin -----

What about the time?

Please, this quite an important-----

The Tánaiste is eating into every one else's time-----

I think Deputy Donnelly's colleague would like me to answer the question that has been raised about Donegal. It is a very important issue and one I want to acknowledge. I thought people in Donegal, in terms of the politicians in this House, were working together on it. I know that my party colleague, Senator Manus Boyle, along with Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher, the Minister of State, Deputy McConalogue, Deputy Doherty and his colleague Deputy Mac Lochlainn, and Deputy Charles Ward, have all engaged on this issue with the Minister and the community. I met with the Irish Cancer Society on this issue and we discussed it last week. This is a very serious issue for people in Donegal, particularly but not exclusively for cancer patients.

Thank you, Tánaiste.

Just bear with me for one second. I spoke to the Minister in relation to it. The Minister, Deputy O'Brien, has confirmed that he anticipates that next week he will be in a position to announce the reinstatement of the midday service and the overnighting of the aircraft in Donegal.