Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

-----that there would be a fuel allowance, a vouched fuel system introduced before the carbon levy. This was confirmed by the then Minister for Social and Family Affairs, Deputy Mary Hanafin, last February. The Government has now welched on that promise to the poorest households in the country. It is a disgrace. The Government is telling them they will have to wait.

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