The Irish Petrol Retailers Association IPRA) has expressed serious concern at how petrol retailers are being treated by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE). David Blevings, spokesperson for the IPRA said, “Retailers across the country were able to access the Increased Cost of Business Grant scheme (ICOB) and without clear guidance from DETE,…
A Submission from The Irish Petrol Retailers Association (IPRA) ahead of Budget 2025 Introduction The Irish Petrol Retailers Association (IPRA) was set up to assist independent petrol retailers in 2008 as there was no dedicated lobby group for the sector. It has gone from strength to strength and is now seen as the main lobbying…
With less than two weeks to go before we see a further excise increase on road fuels as part of the Governments’ restoration of duty, IPRA are calling on the new Finance Minister, Jack Chambers to hear the pleas of Border forecourts who claim this further increase will further diminish trade and could put some…
At a time when households are struggling to make ends meet, the Irish Petrol Retailers Association has made a last-ditch attempt and called on the Minister for Finance, Michael McGrath to put a halt on the planned increase in excise in both petrol and diesel motor fuel due to take place on the 31st March…
The Irish Petrol Retailers Association [IPRA] makes the following set of submissions in relation to the National Payments Strategy on behalf of our members, being forecourt operators and retailors across the country. The IPRA understand that “the overarching goal of the NPS is to enhance and build public trust in, and the effectiveness of, the…
The Irish Petrol Retailers Association has launched a petition calling on the Irish Government and Minister for Finance Michael McGrath to immediately STOP the planned increase in excise in both petrol and diesel motor fuel due to take place on the 31st March 2024. We have already seen the biofuel cost increase by 2cpl in…
The Irish Petrol Retailers Association is today launching a petition calling on the Irish Government and Minister for Finance Michael McGrath to immediately STOP the planned increase in excise in both petrol and diesel motor fuel due to take place on the 31st March 2024. We have already seen the biofuel cost increase by 2cpl…
The Irish Petrol Retailers Association are today making a last ditch effort calling for a delay to the launchon the Deposit Re-Turn Scheme [DRS]. Many may ask what is the DRS and don’t yet realise how it willaffect them despite a launch date of 1st February 2024. The very recently launched ads on the TV…
14 December 2023 Michael McGrath TDMinister for FinanceLeinster HouseKildare StreetDublin 2 Dear Minister McGrath On behalf of the Irish Petrol Retailers Association [IPRA] we are writing to you today to request the immediate suspension of the planned increase in excise on motor fuel scheduled under Budget 2024 for both 1st April and 1st August 2024.…
The Irish Petrol Retailers Association (IPRA) welcomed the Finance Ministers decision to postpone the excise increase that was due to be implemented on the 31st October. The increase would have raised retail fuel prices by a further 8cpl on petrol and 6cpl on diesel. IPRA spokesperson, David Blevings said, “IPRA wrote to the Minister pointing…