Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I suppose the difficulty for Carlinn Hall is that even if a solution comes into play it does not get people through this winter. The prices have gone up recently. I have been inundated with communications from people. In fairness, Frontline dropped its price around 14 June to 32.9 cent per kilowatt hour, which was a spectacularly high price at one stage, but at that time it was a reduction. From 12 October it is back up to 42 cent. Frontline is looking at billing monthly so there is even a slight increase in its standing charge. According to Frontline, it does not make any money from selling the heat but only from maintenance and in other areas. Two things need to come into play as a short-term mitigation. That is how we can get the electricity credits to those people in some way, shape of form, and then possibly by looking at Frontline from a business support point of view once the support funding for energy costs is passed on to the people who live in Carlinn Hall and equivalent estates.