If you look at the price of marked gas oil/green diesel, it was retailing about net 94 cents a litre - it’s up at €1.24 now, and that’s about a 30% of an increase on net effect - which is pretty significant for the agri-economy, and indeed in the wider economy - when you look at the work that we’ve brought forward, over a billion euro now in reductions.
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Government leaders are keeping all those decisions under review, and obviously a lot has changed over the last number of weeks.
I would be most concerned if any product is leaking into the Russian military complex, and as a State, we cannot tolerate that.
This will reduce inflation by about 0.6% and that will mean - be it through our shops, our groceries, it is keeping our costs down a little bit, notwithstanding there are very significant challenges.
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