Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has welcomed the announcement that the Fuel Allowance scheme is to be extended by four weeks, saying that \u201cat this time of such uncertainty, this will remove a great worry for hundreds of thousands, especially older people who are now cocooning\u201d.<\/p>\n
The scheme will now run until 8th of May.<\/p>\n
Teachta Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a very positive move by government and will be one less worry for families and individuals eligible.
\n\u201cPractically the entire State has been asked to remain at home and stay indoors as much as is possible. This creates a huge drain on the household heating budget where previously it was on only when the person was at home. It is also welcome for Carers, those with special needs or an impairment, or parents with young children or individuals currently forced to stay indoors because of this virus.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is vital that we support people to be safe and warm when we are asking them to stay at home especially now.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very pleased to see that the common sense approach put forward by Sinn F\u00e9in in the D\u00e1il has prevailed. This is just one example of why the D\u00e1il must continue to meet so that there is a consensus approach to dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy working collectively, we can achieve the best solutions and minimise the impact of these unprecedented measures in a way that takes all of our citizens into account. I am glad common sense has been applied as extending the fuel allowance was the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has welcomed the announcement that the Fuel Allowance scheme is to be extended by four weeks, saying that \u201cat this time of such uncertainty, this will remove a great worry for hundreds of thousands, especially older people who are now cocooning\u201d. The scheme will now run […]<\/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-4090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090","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=4090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4090\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}