Clare Haulier Says More Fuel Supports Needed Next Week To Prevent Industry Collapse

I was part of the last negotiations that we would be accommodated again if we needed to

go back to the minister and that's what has happened this morning.

I think the T-Shake reference in a few times just about the security of college and

that they have to look at us.

We're trying to tease out what we can get going forward with the volatility and the massive

increases.

As you see last night, the bombing last night, I haven't in the last hour seen the price

increase now because this meeting would like the dealers in Ireland, the London exchange

of last night through their hands there and they just couldn't cope with the volatility

and the spikes in the United States very hard to get to a balance and even a package to

us and which would reflect our increased cost.

There's many aspects to it, there's the renewed transfer fuel application, there's the

adders to come into fuel, there is the extra cost we have when tools and ferry charges, there's

the thing on ferry charges called the BAFT and that is taking the increase of fuel to

be in close to trading off the caravan and along boat turns out that's a 300 euro of

an excess and on charter journeys to the UK it's about 200, you have the charges that

were brought up last month in Dublin Port, you have the tools of their 50, so you have

a lot of extra costs and then you on top of that add blue which you use in our engines

now because that's a money-abased, they can't get fertilized or get the ammonia in from

the water on, that's rising rapidly, so we're teasing out that full menu of costs and

how we will get to some sort of, I suppose we're really about to call the times in getting

a scheme to accompany the increasing costs and to tie it to the period of time, to

hire it to the eligibility, a week euro, fart and clear of monthly basis to the action

cost, to be kind of fair to the state or to fit within all the rules that have in Europe

and still get to the figure, so it's a big menu on today, we certainly have put a lot

of thought into the department and the different other people, associates like Revenue as to

scheme, as to what we need and how we can do it, we certainly have put forward a set

of equations that can take forward to Europe, it would often encompass all of our client

to us, that has to be tensed out of us and two departments during the week, didn't take

an onward to Europe to see the calendar be loud, but you know, counter-teamers have just

changed their business and think in Europe this morning would be to look.

Well we certainly hope so and it is fair to say that even for the private motorists at

the moment, the biggest driving factor behind what you're paying at the pumps isn't the

conflict in Iran, it's still government taxation.

Well the biggest equation on food is the taxation, but the rise is the war and you know,

when you look at our figures and people might say, oh, why is the hall is on again, like

we are a contributor between 800 million and say with the coaches, the public comment

under this, to up towards a billion of taxation to the state every year.

We are a, you know, massive collector of taxation for the state and far from looking for

is minuscule in comparison to the totality of taxation we collect.

And also it's at a stage of we are trying not to go back to our customer.

We have surcharges in, we got a bit of relief the other day to just let us thread water.

It has gone way both there.

And just to keep our supply chain at a level that we can compete, it should cut down on

the upward spiral, the absolutely unrelenting upward spiral of cost to people of the last

few years.

There are individual costs of what to choose to purchase and what to don't choose to

purchase.

I'm afraid we'll go up for another ride because of the war, but that we might cut back

and our ease the burden of the unrelenting rise of cost.

And with that then you, Gina, are you expecting another conversation with the Transport Minister

next week or some class of an update next week?

I'd say the next conversation would be teasing out the ceiling with officials.

We would prepare a paper over the weekend, put the nuts and bolts and put them from this

meeting the guidelines we've got as to where we're going with two or three different

scenarios put to them.

As I said, they've turned into a lot of categories before they can get anywhere.

I developed a lot of other people pulling out of them, but for us we have to try and

now that we have teased out some of the different scenarios that we may put, we must now put

logic to that, put the methods to it, put the totality of cost over a period, whichever

period of month, three months a year, to get that over the line in Europe, we need to get

over the line with the patterns.

We start that over the weekend.

We really put this or saying choose tomorrow and if not on Monday, sometimes I have a

sitting on the desk.

We expect to talk to them again by doing even a win tomorrow at the latest.

If that requires another tease out with the minister, we will be looking for it.

We want it on the table, on the discussion to choose by whichever day next week.

I'm sure there's ongoing discussions all the time now with this.

We need it next week on the table.

It's that imminent.

It's that need us.

We're caught also by cash flow, you know, outcomes now are expecting payment before you

get your next delivery, even though you might have a 30 days or 60 days, you know, they don't

know how they come out.

So though they haven't caught your credit terms, you certainly, they are demanding their

checks that quicker.

That cuts cash flow into choke and businesses and we need to get this moving, the need and

the immediate need to business is this frightening, you know, that's a spread rule and external

fear, but for college businesses and the schemes we've put for trying to get a fair and

balanced, to the licentarny, to the tax compliant and pro-race to everybody's usage.

Now, there's a lot in that equation to bring that together.

I would say we have certainly, as I said, about two or three different scenarios to this

to partner today, we certainly have given them food for talks and we will certainly be

following up with a fairly quick way and pushing it.