Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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I accept that and I am not disputing that industry can put forward a very valid argument for making changes at any time. It is its entitled to do that, to lobby and to seek relief wherever it can. The question here is about how appropriate it was to put this in place and that it would recur every year, with very little opportunity for review of its impact. Even when we produce legislation in Leinster House, we are told that it will be reviewed after the first year to see what happens. It is very seldom that it is reviewed but surely in the context of this, where we had quite a large package of money which was going to be costing domestic users, there should have been some method to see what the impact of this was. Were the reasons when it started still valid three years later and what had happened?