Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion

Mr. Paul Kenny:

Exhaustive studies on carbon tax have been done by the Department of Finance to make it socially just. We should use that fantastic work, notwithstanding the fact that insulation is the only effective means of protecting people from fuel poverty. It cannot be done with grants and we cannot afford to keep giving people subsidies for fossil fuel, as the State is doing.