Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

I am happy to set out my position. I disagree with the Fine Gael approach. That is the same approach suggested by Hillary Clinton in the US which involves giving a gas holiday tax break. Fundamentally, it is leading our people in the wrong direction and does not recognise the fundamental problem. To pretend that we can get out of this by just cutting tax and that no finite resource issue exists is to get it wrong. Instead I would give back any such financial resources we have to the Irish people to give them the chance to reduce their use of fuel in terms of——

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