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Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: ...Sinn Féin, in particular Deputy Kerrane, for bringing forward this very important motion and giving us the first formal opportunity to discuss on the record of the Dáil the proposed criminalisation of the sale of turf for supply. One would swear to God it was some sort of an illegal drug the way we are talking about it. I never thought the sale and supply of turf would come to...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin. I will be supporting the motion. I, along with colleagues here, have fought consistently to raise matters relating to housing, health and climate change on the floor of the Dáil but we were laughed at. I am no climate denier and I am not here to demonise the Green Party. We have to make fundamental changes in the context of climate change but the absence of...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: Only one speaker at a time, please.

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Healy-Rae: No. I am not talking about the Minister of State at all, but he should not cover for the Minister. It was the Minister who said it.

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Bernard Durkan: We will have one speaker at a time. I call on the Minister of State to proceed.

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Damien English: No. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae is after speaking about what I said. What I said to him was that we are looking at regulating the sale of turf, not stopping the cutting or sale of turf. The Deputy should check the record of what I said before accusing me of saying something wrong.

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Claire Kerrane: As Sinn Féin has acknowledged previously, and acknowledges in the motion, the Government cannot do everything when it comes to the cost of living and, in particular, the energy crisis that households right across this State face. However, there is a glaring anomaly in relation to rural households, the vast majority of which rely on home heating oil and nothing else to heat their homes,...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Martin Browne: In the midst of a cost-of-living crisis of fuel supply insecurity and price hikes, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, wants to ban the sale of turf from September. Since that came out, it has been one long fiasco after another. After showing complete disregard for the 9% of rural households in this country who depend on turf to heat their homes, it quickly went to the Minister making...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion. I thank Deputy Kerrane and Sinn Féin for bringing it forward. One issue that must be recognised, as mentioned by Deputy Martin Kenny, is that in the case of many social housing developments, including, for example, in Tuam and in different parts of counties Galway and Roscommon, ranges and stoves are installed and people are getting...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Damien English: Going back to the various parts of the motion that relate to fuel tax, it is important to remind the House that the driving forces behind the current energy prices are generally outside of the control of the Government, and most reasonable people understand and accept that. We have to work within that and try to reduce the cost pressures on people. This point has been discussed at length in...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Danny Healy-Rae: ...in for giving us the opportunity to talk about this issue. I have no personal gripe with the Minister, but the Government has annoyed and upset many people in rural Ireland over the past fortnight. What has been done is unfair. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, must now realise that what he is trying to do to the people of rural Ireland is blackguarding. He is here now. He has tried to...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, for coming to the House. The State pension is €13,100 per annum. The minimum wage is €21,840 per annum. People have to pay for groceries, house and car insurance and the price of a car. People in rural Ireland can barely live on what they have at the moment. I spoke on radio during the week with the Minister of State, Deputy Niall...

Home Heating Fuels: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (26 Apr 2022)

Carol Nolan: ...as if it is the conscience of the country. It is high time for the rural Deputies in Fianna Fáil or Fine Gael to stand up for their constituents. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, has no right to dictate to people on how they should heat their homes. In my county, 38% of people are dependent on fossil fuels, mainly turf. These are not just elderly people. They are families with no...