Debate contribution: Fuel Poverty Strategy
Debate contribution by Mr Conor Murphy on .
- MLA
- Mr Conor Murphy
- Party at the time
- Sinn Féin
- Date
- 2 December 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Fuel Poverty Strategy
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4686633
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As I said, the Department's energy team sits jointly on a number of bodies with DFC. We give advice on the energy strategy, which will also inform the housing supply strategy from DFC. The energy strategy will very much focus on renewables and on ensuring that we have security and stability in our energy prices, as we focus on creating our own energy supply through our renewables. We continue to work together, of course, and it is hugely important that we do that. We are restricted in what we can do financially for private homes, even though we would like to do much more. We have kept track of a significant intervention on warm homes that has been developed and brought forward in London. As I said in response to a previous question, I have been in correspondence backwards and forwards with the Minister responsible for that. We will keep a close eye on that and the implications that it might have for a much broader home energy strategy rather than one simply for the public housing sector.
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