Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I described for the Taoiseach a scenario in which an elderly woman could not put a headstone on her husband's grave. Her family found her sitting in the dark so terrified was she of another high electricity bill. The exceptional needs line the Taoiseach gave me was of absolutely no assistance to her. The Taoiseach has given a list of things the Government has done but the one thing it has not done is to intervene to ensure the big drop in wholesale costs gets passed on speedily to the consumer. I know all about hedging and the process he described to me, but that is no good to that woman. The Taoiseach talks about windfall taxes and high-level initiatives.

At what stage will that woman and every other household see a drop in their bills? That is what people need. So far, the Taoiseach has come up blank on that. He has simply passed the buck. Similarly in terms of the cost of groceries, he describes processes, meetings, the never-never, on tick or mañana, mañana-----

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