“That’s gouging,” she said, adding that standing charges “have nothing to do with the unit cost of electricity”.
During leaders’ questions, which saw Mr Ryan stand in for the Taoiseach and Mr Doherty for his party leader Mary Lou McDonald, the Donegal TD said a growing number of European countries were adopting price certainty for their populations.Accusing the Government of being the second worst in the EU to provide supports to businesses and consumers, he pointed to the weekend protests in Cork by 5,000 people demanding action after being hit by surging energy charges.
“Secondly, I think the Tory party approach would benefit the energy industries,” he added. “And that is something that we don’t need to do this time. What we need to do is to apply windfall surcharges and actually give that money back to our people.”
The British Conservative Party has more compassion than the Irish Greens. Let that sink in.
Who is in government?