Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

As I have said, people in this country are choosing between eating and heating and the Government's policy on addressing fuel poverty through retrofitting homes is either whole duck or no dinner, that is, to either do a deep retrofit or do nothing. That is not good enough. The ESRI report on energy poverty shows that 550,000 households, the equivalent of 1.3 million people, are in crisis as a result of energy poverty. We are failing these people every day.

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