{"id":1638,"date":"2014-03-10T15:49:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2014-03-10T15:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:49:57","slug":"gas-bill-increase-an-unwelcome-burden-says-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/gas-bill-increase-an-unwelcome-burden-says-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas bill increase an unwelcome burden says Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe described a 1.47%\u00a0increase in gas bills for Bord G\u00e1is Energy customers, announced by the\u00a0Commission for Energy Regulation as an unwelcome burden on hard pressed families.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div>Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;In the current economic climate this is a retrograde step and an unwelcome additional burden on hard pressed families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ireland has one of the highest levels in Europe of \u2018excess deaths\u2019 each winter due to fuel poverty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many families face the dilemma of \u2018food or fuel\u2019 when faced with a limited, shrinking budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is happening with the backdrop of Ireland giving away its natural resources, such as the gas field off the coast of Mayo, for practically nothing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a very poor management of energy in Ireland, and government actions seem to favour industry instead of household consumers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sooner Government introduces a national strategy on energy, the better.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am calling for all domestic energy prices to be frozen until such a plan is in place.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The incremental rise of goods and services has to be tackled if individuals and families are to survive this lengthy recession.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>###<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe described a 1.47%\u00a0increase in gas bills for Bord G\u00e1is Energy customers, announced by the\u00a0Commission for Energy Regulation as an unwelcome burden on hard pressed families. Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said; &#8220;In the current economic climate this is a retrograde step and an unwelcome additional burden on hard pressed families. &#8220;Ireland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}