Peadar Tóibín: “Given the current price trajectory for fuel, any efforts to jack up excise on petrol and diesel by 27c and 32c in…”

He called for an additional €2.5bn to be spent on defence.

The drug must be reimbursed now for sufferers in desperate need.

A rudimentary understanding of the Irish language would be nice, he added.

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