Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2022-04-07
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

I understand where the Deputy is coming from but I am just not sure what she is suggesting we do in practical terms. We have a really ambitious retrofit programme which is very much under way. The constraint there is not money. We will find it difficult to spend the money we have allocated towards retrofitting that comes from carbon taxes paid by businesses as well as households.
Those businesses that produce the most carbon pay the most. However, the difficulty we will run into with retrofitting is having the skills and staff to make it happen; it is not a financial issue. If we took all the dividends in the world, they would not create an extra plumber or provide us with the additional capacity we need.

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Sitting date: 2022-04-07