{"id":5269,"date":"2024-06-26T13:13:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2024-06-26T13:13:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:13:28","slug":"a-sinn-fein-government-would-tackle-exorbitant-electricity-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/a-sinn-fein-government-would-tackle-exorbitant-electricity-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sinn F\u00e9in Government would tackle exorbitant electricity prices"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that Government inertia has led to spiralling electricity costs which are costing workers and families an extra \u20ac700 a year on average compared to their European neighbours. <br \/><br \/>Speaking after last night\u2019s debate in the D\u00e1il where Sinn F\u00e9in put forward its alternative Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cIreland has some of the highest electricity prices in Europe. On average, we pay prices that are 60% higher than our European neighbours, a whooping \u20ac700 a year more. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThis is a direct result of decades of successive Fianna F\u00e1il, Fine Gael and Green led Governments failing to invest in renewable energy, leaving the State overly reliant on dirty and expensive fossil fuel imports, energy insecurity, and exposed to the mood swings of the international market.<br \/><br \/>\u201cRenewable energy is bankable energy security. Not only would a greater investment in renewable energy help us reach our carbon emissions targets, but by relying less on the foreign energy market, we could weather any spikes in prices caused by global events such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine or OPEC\u2019s recent reduction in production. <br \/><br \/>\u201cWe must also ramp up our retrofitting plans. There must be increased funding and radical reform of the Government&#8217;s current regressive retrofitting and Solar Photovoltaic Scheme, in order to target those who need it most coupled with an accessible, affordable and efficiently tiered, area-based schemes for retrofitting and Solar PV and a dedicated fund for the retrofitting of solid fuel homes<br \/><br \/>\u201cGovernment inaction is at the heart of Ireland\u2019s rip-off prices.  Sinn F\u00e9in in government would tackle the exorbitant price of electricity in Ireland and give ordinary workers and families a break from unacceptable electricity prices.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that Government inertia has led to spiralling electricity costs which are costing workers and families an extra \u20ac700 a year on average compared to their European neighbours. Speaking after last night\u2019s debate in the D\u00e1il where Sinn F\u00e9in put forward its alternative Teachta Crowe [&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-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","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=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5270,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/5270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}