{"id":492,"date":"2012-09-05T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/gas-hike-will-mean-further-hardship-crowe\/"},"modified":"2012-09-05T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T09:19:00","slug":"gas-hike-will-mean-further-hardship-crowe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/gas-hike-will-mean-further-hardship-crowe\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas hike will mean further hardship \u2013 Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: large;\"><strong>Gas hike will\u00a0mean further hardship \u2013 Crowe<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"><strong><br \/> <\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"><br \/> Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said today\u2019s decision by The Commission for Energy Regulation to approve an 8.5 per cent increase in Bord G\u00e1is Energy\u2019s domestic gas prices will\u00a0mean further hardship for thousands of families.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">Deputy Crowe was commenting on the announcement by the energy regulator to approve the rise that will come into effect from the 1st of October onwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">He said: \u201cThe 8.5% increase for Bord G\u00e1is\u2019s non-daily metred customers will place at greater risk many thousands of additional families who will face an increasing struggle to heat their homes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">\u201cIt is the latest hike in a series of increases to\u00a0the cost of domestic heating that will increase the likelihood of fuel poverty and comes on the back of one of the wettest and coldest summers on record.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail_quote\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">\u201cLast year the relatively mild winter meant the rising cost of oil and gas had a less serious impact than might have been expected but if the temperature drops to the levels experienced in the winter of 2010\/11 then many people, particularly the elderly, will be placed in\u00a0obvious danger. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\">\u201cThis is just the latest example of a price rise that is forcing greater hardship on people who are already struggling to cope in the face of rising unemployment, falling wages, additional taxes and higher living costs.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gas hike will\u00a0mean further hardship \u2013 Crowe \u00a0 Dublin South West Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has said today\u2019s decision by The Commission for Energy Regulation to approve an 8.5 per cent increase in Bord G\u00e1is Energy\u2019s domestic gas prices will\u00a0mean further hardship for thousands of families. Deputy Crowe was commenting on the announcement by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}