Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Carbon Tax: Discussion

Photo of Jack ChambersJack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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This committee recommended that a review be completed around fuel poverty. Surely, there will be an outcome from that work. Academics review lots of things all the time. When will the detailed work recommended by this committee be completed by the Department? Mr. Collins's response concerns me and causes me to ask whether the Department has even commenced the review. If it has, is there a generic tracking of the process? It is important we clarify this issue. If the committee's recommendations around key issues are collapsing on day one, in terms of the consensus we are supposed to be formulating on this issue, that does not fit with the high-level principled rhetoric elsewhere around this issue. It is important that we see outcomes.