Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael)

The Minister's lack of ambition can only be described as startling. A grant of €2,000 for a house — any of those older houses — is not even a carrot on the stick; it is just a stick with the string and no carrot. Frankly, anybody who has an old property to be converted for energy efficiency will tell him that.

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