Debate contribution: Winter Fuel Payment

Debate contribution by Mr Robbie Butler on 16 September 2024.

MLA: Mr Robbie Butler
Party at the time: Ulster Unionist Party
Date: 16 September 2024
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Winter Fuel Payment
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4532082

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I thank the Minister for his answer, which was given with brevity. Two hundred and forty nine thousand is an incredible number; it is almost a quarter of a million. Will the Minister detail the concerns that he has raised about the disproportionate effect that it will have on pensioners in Northern Ireland, given that it is a disproportionate number? Will his Department introduce a support scheme, such as the previous emergency fuel payment scheme, to assist householders who are in need?

82 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Part of an exchange

This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 775/22-27.

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