''Right outside the GPO. 🚜🚗🚜🚛🚛🚜🚚🚜🚛🚜🚚🚜 The boys are not messing yeah. The boys are not messing.
What does that mean like ‘Can’t Afford to Move’ ? Can’t Afford to Move... He’s right isn’t he. Video on Instagram.
'' I’m not going to lie, lads. What is actually going on at the moment? Fuel gone through the roof, tractors everywhere. You’d swear we're in Fast and Furious, Me O' Drift or something. No, but genuinely boys Fair F’s to the boys and the tractors. The whole of Ireland crying in group chats and them boys are like, ‘we'll do something about it’. Half of us then are throwing a score in the tank, hoping it'll last next week. Afraid to look at the dashboard. The dashboard like a Christmas tree. The light's been on since last week. Driving around like it's a suggestion and still up at 6AM in the morning. Tea in the hand. Going into work like nothing's happening. We're a different breed altogether. Fair play to anyone actually standing up as well. That's the Irish, isn't it? We laugh, we'll struggle, but we still get up for work. Get on the Irish.'' Video on Instagram.
John Dallon (Dublin Protest Leader - O’Connell Street): Micheal Martin the Taoiseach and the Tanaiste, Simon Harris. We have numbers growing and growing every day. This problem is not going away. The only people can put this to bed is the government. How dare they come out and say that these people that are protesting are holding the country to ransom. It's the government that's holding this country for ransom, not the protesters, not the people. The people should have a voice.
Micheál Martin (An Taoiseach Ireland): Anybody who just simply parks a truck in the middle of nowhere, there should be penalties and there will be penalties.
Chris Duffy (Protest Organiser): You cannot put a slurry tanker on a bicycle. (Explainer you need a Tractor to pull a Slurry Tanker. Trackers are Diesel only... Green Diesel, Carbon Tax ('Pay as you pollute') Increasing annually..)
Taxed Into Extinction guys: Taxes in the likes of farming. We are being taxed into extinction, it's the only way to put it. Like if you take, for example, this tractor here, when this tractor was bought, there was tax paid on this tractor. When we bring this tractor home, we have to put diesel in the tractor. We are taxed heavily on the diesel. That's why we're here today protesting. We are being taxed 60-65% percent on the tank of diesel. (Post €505M package now approx. 48% mid April €2.14 average diesel price).
You have to put tax on the windscreen (Road Tax) so that it's road worthy. To go on M50 another tax to put a tag on it. Income tax. Another expense you're putting AdBlue. That's another gimmick, another tax. This does absolutely nothing. That truck has to be tested very regularly for regulations. That's another tax. Tires tax. When you go to put a brand new set of tires on these. A set of tires for tractor could be in the region of anywhere from €10,000 to €15,000 for a full set of tires. We're paying crazy tax on tires too. We're paying crazy tax on absolutely everything. Anything that you see here in front of you, basically, it's just one big heap for tax.
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