Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

The Deputy is correct in that I responded to the huge increases in 2008. Since then, the cumulative decline in prices has been 27% which does not mean that for the consumer the prospect of Bord Gáis raising its consumer price in the coming winter will be welcome. I have expressed this view to the company and to the regulator. I have been working with my colleague, the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, on the fuel poverty dimension. Deputy Ferris will understand the difficulty is that 95% of our gas is imported. The Kinsale field is winding down and notwithstanding all that gas which Deputy Ferris and his colleagues discovered out there - I asked him to tell me where it is exactly so I can bring it ashore-----

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