Luke Flanagan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If Mammy or Daddy gets too drunk to go out and pay it the children end up in the dark and cold. That is the long and the short of it. Flawed and all as the other system was, if Mammy and Daddy went out and got drunk the children would have electricity. I understand where the witnesses are coming from but it will create hell for many children.