Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

Question 11: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources in view of the commitment in the four year National Recovery Plan to double the carbon tax, the measures he plans to take to alleviate the difficulties this will impose on persons on lower incomes who are struggling to afford to heat their homes; if he has achieved his Programme for Government commitment to publish a fuel poverty strategy; if his attention has been drawn to the increasing number of disconnections in electricity and gas; his views that the growing social problem of fuel poverty must be addressed as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45227/10]

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