Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We launched a national retrofitting programme with unprecedented grant supports for home energy upgrades and increasing numbers of free energy upgrades for those at risk of energy poverty. Today the Government approved a proposal for the abolition of inpatient charges for children under 16 from July, to alleviate the financial burden of statutory hospital charges. There is much more in terms of the work we have done for hauliers. The idea that we have done nothing is a falsehood to articulate in this House. There is much more that we have done. On the broader scale, we have engaged in exploratory dialogue with the social partners to deal strategically as a country with the unprecedented increases in energy costs arising from the war on Ukraine and other global issues.

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