Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy is going to learn one thing about me, that is, when I am ready to make a decision I will make it. Nobody will force me into making a decision before I am ready. As I said, I have not got the recommendations and therefore I cannot answer the question at this time. Therefore, the Deputy cannot say whether or not I am going to, because I have not said so. The Deputy will have to be patient. I am more than concerned, and not only about this. The big issue, as the Deputy has rightly pointed out, is not the carbon tax, because the price of home heating oil has gone up way beyond what the carbon tax would have done. There is a huge issue there, if the Deputy is really concerned about fuel poverty. Even if there was never a carbon tax - which the Deputy seems to think is the totality of this challenge - the real problem is lack of insulation in people's houses. If we are really concerned about the disadvantaged and about the people who are suffering from fuel poverty, the first and biggest thing to tackle is-----

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