Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions Dail Éireann — 2022-01-27 ============================================================ Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West There has also been the real rent freeze of 2% or less, the freeze on childcare fees, in addition to improvements to the Student Universal Support Ireland grant, which will come in later in the year. As I said, when it comes to the specific issue of energy costs, the energy credit will be legislated for quite soon. We will deduct it from people's bills, hopefully, by the end of March. We are looking at other mechanisms to help because we appreciate that the cost is very high. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2022-01-27/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:50:02+00:00 Sitting date: 2022-01-27