Minister for the Environment Eamon Ryan will tell an Oireachtas committee on Tuesday that a new action plan to combat energy poverty will set out a range of measures to be implemented ahead of this winter. Photograph: MaxwellsThe Government is to produce a new plan to tackle energy poverty amid fears that sky-high utility bills will push more people into the classification this winter.
Mr Ryan will tell the committee on the environment that the review, which has already been delayed, will be put to consultation “in the coming weeks”. He will say his Department has “received the final technical analysis to inform the review”. He will say that while the short to medium oil supply outlook has stablaised, the Government is “keenly aware” of the pressure on households facing bills and “recognises that more needs to be done as prices continue to increase and additional measures to support households are being examined in the context of the forthcoming budget”.
Sinn Féin environment spokesman Darren O’Rourke, who is on the committee, said he wanted to know “what buffer or headroom” there was in the electricity system if there were unforeseen outages in output from power plants. “The first thing we really want to know is assurances in terms of supply and generation capacity over the winter,” he said.
Don’t worry, Eamon Ryan damage nothing while sleeping, wait, is that him wakes up?! Run! Everybody run!
That clown Ryan couldn't plan a piss up in a brewery
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In other words, government coming up with a new plan to extract more money from people and increase homelessness to drive up their rents and returns from their investments. Ursala coming up with energy plan for fffgg to claim as their own.
I doubt it very much.