Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

My colleague, the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, introduced a new housing aid for older people scheme last November which provides targeted support to improve conditions in existing housing for older people. These are real measures we are introducing but we cannot confuse the Irish people by not being clear and honest with them about what the fundamental problem is, which is a finite geological resource off which we must wean ourselves.

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