The Government will bring forward measures to help the public tackle the cost of living crisis in the "coming weeks", according to Eamon Ryan.
The Green Party leader is expected to launch measures in the near future, admitting that they will "have to do a lot more".
He told Morning Ireland on RTE that there were three aspects that the Government needed to focus on as the cost of energy, electricity, gas and petrol/diesel continues to spike.
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He explained: "The €230 electricity credit was only one of the measures that the Government have introduced.
"We've used almost €2bn of the public's purse to try and support families through this really difficult time, but we're going to have to do a lot more because we don't know the duration of this war, the international markets for gas and coal and oil are causing this problem. We can't completely fix that due to international factors.
"There are three aspects that we need to now focus on. We should be tackling those that are at most risk of poverty.
"A lot of the measures introduced so far have been universal because everyone has been affected. There will be further universal measures. One of the measures in the next week or two is that we'll remove the PSO, which will happen in October this year. It'll save about €60 a year."
He added "More immediately, we need to focus on energy efficiency. The next phase really has to be about energy efficiency, helping people to save money with some practical measures that cut the cost of a bill.
"We’ll bring to government in the next two weeks some of those measures, some of them in planning systems, some of them regulatory, some of them a campaign to help explain to the public what are the simple ways in which bills can be cut."
"We need to target particularly those at risk of fuel poverty and some of those measures will take time, some of them will be better placed for the budget where we really need to look at what your how the social welfare system can kick in and to take time and to get that right."
Minister Ryan also said that Ireland would look at accelerating the switch to "our own local power supplies" so as not to depend on imported fossil fuels.
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