Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 33, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following subsection:

"(6) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (5), energy efficiency improvement measures include the provision of dry lining or any other form of wall insulation, or the provision of double glazed windows.".

The purpose of the amendment is to add a small subsection on dry lining insulation in walls. Our main concern is to ensure this provision aimed at energy efficiency would be allowed. The Minister is well aware of the issue of fuel poverty and that there has been talk that the ESB, or a section of it, will be sold. Some of the money would go towards job creation, but would some of it go towards the alleviation of fuel poverty?