Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Is that always the case? Say we do not do as Mr. Barnes suggests and just use the €2.5 billion; say we use €4 billion but it is properly targeted. If you offset the price increases in energy for low-income deciles, you are not creating inflationary pressure.

It is only if you do what the Government did the last time, which was 90% untargeted, that you create inflationary pressure.