{"id":5525,"date":"2026-02-27T16:05:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:05:41","slug":"government-decision-to-scrap-energy-credits-leaves-320000-homes-unable-to-pay-their-electricity-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/government-decision-to-scrap-energy-credits-leaves-320000-homes-unable-to-pay-their-electricity-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Government decision to scrap energy credits leaves 320,000 homes unable to pay their electricity bills"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has slammed the government\u2019s decision to scrap energy credits which has left almost 320,000 homes unable to pay their electricity bills. <br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe said: <br \/><br \/>\u201cAlmost 320,000 homes &#8211; around one in seven households \u2013 are unable to keep up with their electricity bills. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThat is not an accident. It is the direct result of this government\u2019s decision to scrap energy credits without taking any meaningful action to force energy companies to lower their prices.<br \/><br \/>\u201cPeople are working hard. They are doing everything right, but bills keep rising, wages are not keeping pace, and the government has stepped back just when families need support the most.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe simple truth is this; Fianna F\u00e1il and Fine Gael made a political choice to withdraw supports while allowing energy companies to continue charging sky-high prices.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe government need to come out and explain to struggling families why they removed energy credits and why they have failed to rein in excessive electricity prices.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe government needs to admit they got this wrong. They must bring forward an immediate cost-of-living package and reintroduce energy credits as an emergency measure to give households breathing space.<br \/><br \/>\u201cFamilies cannot afford any more delay.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has slammed the government\u2019s decision to scrap energy credits which has left almost 320,000 homes unable to pay their electricity bills. Teachta Crowe said: \u201cAlmost 320,000 homes &#8211; around one in seven households \u2013 are unable to keep up with their electricity bills. \u201cThat is not [&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-5525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525","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=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5526,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions\/5526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}