Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

The €100 to offset the absolutely shocking increases in energy and fuel prices that people will be struck with over the coming weeks is pathetically inadequate. I am already getting reports of people getting energy bills that have increased by 125% in the bills that are going to drop in the next few weeks. The Government needs to do more than it is doing. We have repeatedly urged it to use its powers under the consumer Act to declare an emergency in energy prices, to control the unit prices of electricity and heating fuel, and to expand access to the fuel allowance for the many pensioners and people on low pay who do not benefit from it.

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