Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is a reasonable approach to an issue that clearly was raising much concern in many households last week. We are responding to it. We now have a step-by-step process to encourage people to change their behaviour and to reward them - by means of a pricing model - for doing that on a voluntary basis. After 12 months - unfortunately Deputy Healy is not here - we have made no promise-----

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