{"id":386456,"date":"2026-03-15T13:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/386456\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T13:54:13","slug":"taoiseach-hints-at-tax-cut-to-help-with-rising-cost-of-fuel-but-rules-out-carbon-tax-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/386456\/","title":{"rendered":"Taoiseach hints at tax cut to help with rising cost of fuel but rules out carbon tax delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Backbenchers growing increasingly anxious about the political fallout from the sting of elevated prices for petrol and diesel\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773582853_939_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Indo Politics: Miche\u00e1l Martin&#8217;s trip to the Oval Office <\/p>\n<p>C\u00f3nal Thomas, Mary Regan and Niamh Horan<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Taoiseach has strongly hinted that cuts to excise duty on fuel are being considered to help households with the soaring cost of energy as a result of the war in Iran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">But as pressure builds on the Coalition to offer relief to homes and businesses, Miche\u00e1l Martin ruled out delaying a planned increase in carbon tax, saying the impact of such a delay would be nowhere near the impact of cutting other levies and taxes on fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Backbenchers growing increasingly anxious about the political fallout from the sting of elevated prices for petrol and diesel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,92909,356,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,6644,5765,5,5364,46,47,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":["post-386456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-conal-thomas","tag-donald-trump","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-mary-regan","tag-micheal-martin","tag-news","tag-niamh-horan","tag-paschal-donohoe","tag-sinn-fein","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-world","tag-world-news","tag-worldnews"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116233533423857519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}