Four nominated representatives from the fuel price protest plan to attend a meeting today (Friday, April 10) that will be hosted by three government ministers to discuss rising fuel costs.

A roundtable discussion is scheduled to take place with nationally constituted representative organisations and government representatives at Agriculture House in Dublin.

This will include farmer representative organisations, hauliers, and contractors over rising fuel costs.

The meeting is set to be hosted by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Heydon, Minister for Transport Darragh O'Brien, and Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM), Timmy Dooley.

According to one of the organisers of the fuel price protests, James Geoghegan, there are four people who have been nominated to attend the meeting.

According to government sources, no official invitation was extended to the fuel price protesters to attend the meeting at Agriculture House in Dublin.

However the Taoiseach Micheál Martin said today that the government was "not going to dictate" who could attend the meeting or who was going to turn up to it.

James Geoghegan is one of three fuel price protesters who plans to sit down at the meeting.

He said the group have four key asks from government including that carbon tax is abolished, a cap on fuel prices, and a reduction in electricity prices.

ICSA

Separately the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association (ICSA) said it had not received an invitation to today’s meeting.

In a statement the ICSA said that there is no doubt that the concerns being raised around fuel costs and the broader pressure on farm incomes "are very real, and many of our members share those frustrations".

"While individual members, including officeholders, may choose to participate in protests in a personal capacity, those actions are not undertaken on behalf of ICSA and do not reflect an organisational mandate.

"ICSA’s focus remains on ensuring that farmers’ concerns are addressed through direct and constructive engagement with government, and we remain available to participate in those discussions," the organisation stated.