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Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Dessie Ellis: ...per litre just last year, have since increased to a staggering €1.32 per litre, having reached a peak in May of almost €1.76 per litre. It costs €1,300, on average, to fill a tank. How long the fill would last depends on usage. A poorly insulated house uses more fuel. Larger families use more fuel as well. A full tank might only last a couple of months before a...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Ossian Smyth: ...schemes in 2022. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications has published a review of the strategy to combat energy poverty. A new action plan will set out measures for this winter, as well as longer term measures, and will be published shortly after the budget. A cross-departmental steering group chaired by the Department of the Environment, Climate and...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Matt Shanahan: ...power stations in Lanesborough and Shannonbridge to burn biomass. This is eminently feasible and just requires policy legislation. We could also set a national cap on the unit price of electricity within the State, raising a long-term loan to pay for verifiable surplus cost to power generators, which would be repaid through electricity bills over a 15-year period. We have seen this...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...acknowledged by the Tánaiste this week that free school transport was a mistake, given how it is overprescribed. The Taoiseach disagreed with this statement at the talk-in this week, positing that the long-term embedding of behavioural changes could counteract the impact of this failing, but these behavioural changes will not help the affected families now. What are we going to do...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...is threatened with eviction from a housing assistance payment, HAP, or rental accommodation scheme, RAS, tenancy, let us buy the house immediately, prevent people from being put on the street and save the State money in the long term.

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...Celtic tiger levels with nowhere near the same recovery for wages. The recent ECB interest rate increase is going to apply even more pressure on already-struggling homeowners. Meanwhile rental costs long ago soared into the stratosphere and are now priced at more than €1,600 per month nationally and an extortionate €2,200 in Dublin. There appears to be no upper limit when...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...workers and families and indeed small businesses cannot take any more and they certainly cannot face into a winter with bills that continue to skyrocket and could cripple them. Households need long-term solutions to this cost-of-living crisis, not one-off measures which will do nothing to fix the root cause of the problems households are facing. It is predicted that households can expect...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Denise Mitchell: ...stress that is being put on young families. We need the Government to bring in a windfall tax on the companies that are gouging people across this State. The Government cannot dither and delay any longer. It is time for the Government to wake up and realise how stretched people are. It needs to act in their interests instead of letting costs spiral and people be ripped off by companies...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Eamon Ryan: ...different measures to try to protect consumers across the Continent. In that meeting, the Commission set out a five-point plan for immediate emergency measures. There was a range of other medium- and long-term measures. However, because of the price increases over the summer we realised that together all of us in Europe needed to act fast now to protect our people. Serious measures...