asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if, in view of the continued rationing of electricity, the Electricity Supply Board can now be asked to reconsider the method of rationing with a view to fixing the ration on a per head basis instead of on the basis of pre-emergency consumption per household.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Rationing of Electricity.
As I indicated in a reply in Dáil Éireann on the 12th June, 1944, to questions by the Deputy, I am satisfied that full consideration was given to the matter by the Electricity Supply Board before the present method of rationing was adopted and that that method is the most equitable that could be devised in the difficult circumstances which obtain.
Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that, in the light of the experience of the public and of the knowledge which the Electricity Supply Board has, this method is not equitable and continues to impose great hardships on certain sections of the community?
I have already informed the Deputy that the existing system is the most equitable that could be devised in the difficult circumstances that obtain.
Surely a system cannot be claimed to be equitable whereby, all over North County Dublin, there is light for cattle to eat the grass, while we in the town of Drogheda are cut off, so far as domestic lighting is concerned?
Will the Parliamentary Secretary ask the Electricity Supply Board to re-examine the question?
And illuminate the citizens and not the cows.