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 5774415
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I thank the Member for her question. She articulates the point really well. Over two thirds of our households depend on home heating oil, so we are particularly exposed. There is also a higher rate of diesel car usage here, so, in many cases, people are being hit twice. That is why we need to see a cost-of-living package in the Budget. I have reinforced that message at every opportunity with my counterparts in the British Government. I have also encouraged them, urged them and pleaded with them to engage with us at an early stage when they are developing schemes so that those schemes are appropriate for people here. Engagement often comes lastminute.com, and we have to design something specific for here that does not work as well as it should because there is often a time lag. We have reinforced those points, and I know that colleagues across the Executive, including the First Minister and the deputy First Minister, have done likewise.
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