Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)

The 9% rate introduced in the jobs initiative for certain services and the 13.5% rate that applies to home heating oil, residential housing, general repairs and maintenance works will remain the same. When the Opposition is scaremongering the elderly about not being able to fill the oil tank for central heating, it would want to remember that the rate of VAT which applies to central heating fuel is 13.5%, not 21% as certain Deputies opposite have claimed.

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