John Brassil (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Given the protracted talk about the severe weather warning there is a need to protect elderly citizens and to keep them warm.

As a way of being helpful, I suggest the April payment be brought forward in order that everybody in receipt of the fuel allowance would receive an extra payment. The Government would not have to find extra money to bring this forward. I ask the Taoiseach to consider very seriously this suggestion which would provide a quick and short necessary solution to what is a very real problem.

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