Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I absolutely understand the nature of the crisis and the risk of further difficulties if these problems extend. As I said, we saw prices were rising last year and we started to respond. The expectation was that those prices would start to come down this year but that is not looking likely. We are going to have to manage. We must change the timelines and think about how we do things in a more radical way. When I met representatives of the CRU last week, they were absolutely open to looking at every option. That is also true of my Department.

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