The Government will need to dip into the exchequer surplus to pay another half a billion euro in fuel supports after a week of protests and blockades led to severe diesel and petrol shortages. We get reaction to all this with Conal Thomas, Irish Independent,Seamus Coffey, Chair of the Fiscal Advisory Council and also  Ged Nash, Labour Finance spokesperson. 

There has been new road blockades this morning and our reporter Josh Crosbie brought us the latest.