Hauliers Call For Incremental End To Fuel Price Supports

Coalition leaders will consider ending fuel excise duty cuts at a meeting this evening.

Hauliers says the unwinding of fuel price supports needs to be done incrementally. 

Coalition party leaders will meet tonight to discuss the phasing out of cuts to excise duty on petrol and diesel. 

It's likely the 32 cent reduction to the cost of a litre of diesel and the 27 cent on a litre of petrol will be removed over a number of months. 

Laois man Ger Hyland is the President of the Irish Road Haulage Association and he wants to see that done over a longer timeframe:

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