Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am informed that today is the second anniversary of the Government's formation. Happy anniversary. The document that accompanied the Government's formation, namely, the programme for Government, contains an unambiguous and easily understandable commitment on page 22. It reads: "We will complete and publish a strategy to tackle fuel-poverty." Since that commitment was made in writing to the Irish public two years ago, the period for which fuel allowance is payable has been drastically reduced and allowances to help people who are vulnerable, elderly or in receipt of social welfare payments to pay for their gas, ESB, etc. have also been slashed. Is that the fuel strategy or will a new strategy be produced in the indeterminate future?

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