Debate contribution: Home Heating Oil Costs
Debate contribution by Dr Caoimhe Archibald on .
- MLA
- Dr Caoimhe Archibald
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 5 October 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Home Heating Oil Costs
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5774411
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I thank the Member for her question. In recent weeks, certainly, we have seen the price of oil tick upwards again, which is deeply unwelcome as we move into winter and people fill up their tanks. At the previous Executive meeting, I proposed that we collectively write again to the British Government about the need for a proper cost-of-living support package as part of the Budget that will be announced at the end of the month. We have had some intervention. The £100 oil payment is rolling out, and the £63 electricity payment will be available from tomorrow, but, in the grand scheme of things, those are not huge amounts and will not resolve all the pressures that people face. It means, hopefully, some money going back into people's pockets, but we need a proper cost-of-living intervention, and it is the British Government who have the levers to deliver that.
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