18.07.2008

Dempsey rules out fuel tax cuts Transport Minister Noel Dempsey has ruled out the prospect of reducing excise duty on fuel, and advised hauliers that they should impose a fuel surcharges similar to that employed by the airline industry. Minister Dempsey said he has sympathy with hauliers, who were struggling under the weight of spiralling fuel prices, and said he would raise the issue in Brussels. The Minister confirmed that he had talks IBEC, the Irish Exporters Association and industry in general "to ensure they were being fair to their hauliers." "The difficulty they are in (the hauliers) is that some people will say fine, some people have just said no, we are not paying any fuel surcharge we'll go elsewhere. "The exporters have to recognise they [the hauliers] are in difficulty and the best way to work this out is by both of those doing what they can and working out an agreement in relation to that," he said.

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