Peadar Tóibín: “There's a complete lack of accountability in that sector. There's an enormous amount of waste.”

The fuel crisis is the biggest issue that has been encapsulating this country in the last six months.

He said a recruitment embargo for administrative staff in the health service would save €250m a year.

We want to introduce dynamic pricing to petrol, diesel, agricultural diesel, and home heating oil. How this will work will be that when petrol and diesel reach €1.90 on international prices, cent per cent, the price of carbon tax will come…

Indeed, I would say the Government is incinerating taxpayers' money at a rate in those terms.