Letters to the Editor: An Ireland for all ... who use billpay for electricity

'While the Taoiseach insists on outlining the package of supports to be rolled out to households, he fails to acknowledge that the majority on billpay will also receive all these supports too.'

It is very difficult indeed to reconcile Fianna Fáil’s latest manifesto, ‘An Ireland For All’, with the Taoiseach’s refusal to give assurances when pressed that those with a prepay electricity meter will also be covered by the proposed moratorium on domestic disconnection this coming winter.

To exclude this specific cohort of the population from this very worthy plan is difficult to get to grips with, but it beggars belief when realised that this same cohort will comprise, for the most part, of low-income households who are in greatest need of protection at this very precarious time.