Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 November 2022

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Business of Select Committee

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have made my point but I would argue that the Minister’s scheme deals with electricity and gas. What I put forward is in terms of electricity. We are in November at this point in time and our scheme went to the end of the February. The Minister argued that we did something like what the Minister’s sister party, the Tories, did which was a two-year scheme on both electricity and gas. It is not true. In fairness, the Minister has been a man in his time, and I will finish on this point because we are coming to the discussion section, and the one thing he has done in his time as Minister for Finance is that he has kept to the truth until, I would argue, the past couple of months where he has been very much in spin. He knows some of the stuff that he said about the scheme is not true in regard to the Brits or all that. He knows it is not true.

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