Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----because they have absolutely no incentive to try to contain those costs ... They know that it's all going to be covered by the Government". The only certainty Sinn Féin's plan would provide is the certainty that the woman in Laois and the woman in Dublin and everybody else watching this programme would have to put their hands in their pockets and hand their money over to the energy companies.

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