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

It is unprecedented and I recognise that it is difficult on households across the country. We have a responsibility as the Government to try to protect our people and help them to get through this time, when energy is being used as a weapon of war and high prices are hitting home.

I will set out what we have been doing. People opposite have heard it before, but it bears repeating. The response has been the correct one. It was the response that could be the most targeted and most effective in terms of getting cash to those who needed it to help protect them at this time.

There are no easy solutions and some of the simplistic analysis is not true. It is not true that we opposed windfall taxes.

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