Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

Through the Chair, Deputy Varadkar's proposal to postpone PSO support levies would be hugely damaging to the wind industry in Ireland and would have huge consequences in terms of higher electricity prices in the long term for Irish consumers. I am simply debating the proposals he has put in the public domain. This is not fantasy but is reality. It is the reality of an energy policy of which one should be extremely wary because it could have huge consequences to the people, were it put into effect. I am glad the Government will not do so.

I will continue by reverting to the issue concerning prices because it is a subject about which Members must be clear. First, arising from that debate, a range of different statistics were produced regarding the present position on prices. This is difficult because there is a range of different categories. For example, were one to compare the price of a holiday home in Ireland with an ordinary home-----

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