Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

I will answer it with a question. How is Deputy Coveney so certain that a cost will be applied? Contrary to the absolute assertion that compensation will certainly be required, the international experience in countries where liberalisation has already taken place such as Sweden, Finland and the United Kingdom is that there has been no need for a compensation scheme because a discernible cost has not been applied.

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