Varadkar: No blank cheque for heating

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has sharply rebuked one of his ministers who advised people to keep their heating on 24 hours a day during the cold weather, saying that it is “not the advice of Government”.

For the second time in a month, Cork South West TD and junior minister for the elderly, Jim Daly, has found himself being contradicted by the Taoiseach, who distanced himself from his comments in the Dáil yesterday.

Mr Varadkar told opposition TDs that Mr Daly’s advice to the elderly was to keep their heating on 24/7 during the cold weather is “not the advice of Government”.