Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is right. If I were him, I would not answer the question I was asked. I would not talk about how I and my Government stood in the way of progressive measures and proposals at a European level to address the fact gas is driving prices and this is, in essence, playing into the hands of Putin. Gas is driving the price of electricity. The Government and the Minister have resisted these progressive moves for close on a year at this stage. Consumers in Spain have benefited to the tune of €1.4 billion in a couple of months because their Government took progressive and aggressive action to deal with that. Now, at the eleventh hour, the Minister is eventually making a massive U-turn on behalf of the Government. It is absolutely incredible. Will he answer the question as to why he opposed those progressive measures almost 12 months ago?

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