72. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to the ESRI report entitled Carbon Taxes, Poverty and Compensation Options, 2020 cited by his Department as proof that carbon tax increases leaves the lowest income fifth of households on average better off and reduces poverty, does not accurately measure energy poverty, due to the fact that the Government failed to act on a recommendation from their own 2016 Strategy to Combat Energy Poverty, calling for an appropriate methodology for measuring and tracking energy poverty levels across the State to be designed, which means no appropriate methodology currently exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51565/21]

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72. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if his attention has been drawn to the ESRI report entitled Carbon Taxes, Poverty and Compensation Options, 2020 cited by his Department as proof that carbon tax increases leaves the lowest income fifth of households on average better off and reduces poverty, does not accurately measure energy poverty, due to the fact that the Government failed to act on a recommendation from their own 2016 Strategy to Combat Energy Poverty, calling for an appropriate methodology for measuring and tracking energy poverty levels across the State to be designed, which means no appropriate methodology currently exists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51565/21]

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