Mr. Aidan O'Connor:

The local authority should have examined the problems. It should have a policy on fuel poverty and fuel poverty is what is driving the Deputy's question - that is, the issue of people who cannot afford a fill of oil or cannot get a fill over time. Sometimes people can reach an arrangement with a supplier that they can pay before the oil is supplied or supply it in advance and get paid later. There are various ways that is being done in local authorities. I do not know the particular case. I will be glad to examine it if the Deputy supplies the details and we will see what is behind that. It may have been well-intentioned but flawed thinking, if the Deputy knows what I mean. Obviously, the fuel poverty side of it should have been duly respected.