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

-----and this debate is on whether the price crisis is connected to the war. Yes or no? It is fundamentally important to look at all of the options and at what is happening, and that we get clarity on that. There are a number of complex factors involved here related to how we came out of the Covid-19 pandemic, and so on, but what is happening in Russia and Ukraine is central to why our customers and our households are facing very high bills at the present time. I say that because it is part of the analysis that one has to take into account when looking at how we develop energy policy into the future. Ignoring that reality would not serve our people.

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