Just this week, there have been further price hikes on the cost of energy, with Bord Gáis Energy hiking their prices on Friday.
With the budget arriving at the end of the month, there is speculation of what the Government will do to tackle the rising prices, including a potential windfall tax or another €200 energy credit for households. He says that his current fixed salary is low and he’s seen all his bills – rent, broadband, TV, groceries, home heating oil, electricity and health insurance – increase significantly over the last six months.
‘We’ve started unplugging everything we own’ A young woman, living in the north west of the country with her fiancé, told The Journal that despite making efforts to reduce their energy use, their bills are continuing to increase month after month. ‘I thought the bill was a mistake’ Keith, who runs a local butcher shop in the south east, says that he has seen a massive jump in business electricity prices recently.“I was so convinced that it was a mistake that I rang our energy provider the moment I opened the bill. They told me that not only was the figure correct but that I should count myself lucky that I’m getting that rate for the next 4 months as it should be about 30% higher than that,” he said.
“In the winter we’re anticipating that we’ll all have to work from home in the same room to conserve heat and save on electricity and gas. We’re limiting ourselves to one room in the evenings so that lights and appliances are off everywhere else,” she tells The Journal. She says that she currently only eats a light breakfast and one main meal in the day, with her not being able to afford any more than that.
‘My anxiety is through the roof’ The Journal also heard from a pregnant mother living in the midlands, who said that she and her husband are unable to afford childcare.
TadghMcN Luke told us that he gets a sense of dread whenever a bill arrives through his postbox and he is now worried that he will struggle to heat his home this winter. 'I’m already planning on sleeping in the sitting room to cut down on heating and electricity.'
And yet the restaurants, bars, shopping centres are full?
Fffgg makes people cry too as well as a source of suicides in Ireland
I'll give you a bit of advice. Crying not going to help the situation. The fact of the matter is you and 100's of thousands of people have being living beyond your means for decades now. The economic reality of the situation is going to start biting people in the ass very soon.
What does this achieve exactly?
I'd be curious to Know how Many are in arrears NOW, let alone coming into winter. Media seem only focused on Energy Bills there's alot more hardships being faced, Food costs, Rent, Morgages with Zero room for an emergency. This crisis is like no other I've seen, its Alarming 😳
Many of us are now starting to experience poverty, real poverty. It’s going to be a thoroughly miserable winter. October is when the impact will become even more severe and completely unaffordable. No matter how low your energy usage, the standing charge will be crippling.
Haven't time to read them at the moment. Any mention of Putin in any of them?
But we all knew this was coming. Didn't we? We were told by thr orange man. We were told by out politicians in March. Everyone knew, right
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