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

This Government has to manage the public finances. In its three years in government, there has been a pandemic, from which we have now emerged. We have the ability to provide protection to our people because of good management of the public finances. That needs to continue.

We need to get through this winter period and in March, we will review and examine the whole range of different supports we may need, what is happening with the war and the price of energy.

The amendments would make decisions that would go below the rate which the energy taxation directive allows. I also believe in the issue of carbon tax, which is progressive, because the money from that goes to social protection, to protect the most vulnerable-----

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