Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will come to that in a second, but that was not the argument Deputy Cowen made during the committee. He wanted the basic threshold to be on average usage per person, not per household. Fine Gael has clearly won that and I believe Deputy Cowen has some explaining to do, particularly to his own colleagues who he marched up to the hill on two or three occasions during the committee-----

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