National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2022-02-17
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Steven Matthews (GP), Wicklow

I welcome the scheme. It is a smart scheme. Despite the usual missed opportunity rhetoric that comes from the Opposition pensions no matter what the Government does, this scheme will provide across all demographics and for everybody that can afford it.
As usual, Deputy Boyd Barrett is never clear about what he wants. It would seem that what he wants is to depend on fossil fuels because he does not want to harness the offshore renewable energy electricity that is out there in abundance and which this Government has taken measures to harness. I never quite understand the logic that gets applied.

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Sitting date: 2022-02-17