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that: — approximately 700,000 households across the State depend on home heating oil to keep their homes warm, with many families facing unprecedented financial pressure as winter approaches; and — the cost of filling a home heating oil tank has increased by more than €700 since the beginning … further notes that: — in the hours after the Budget was announced, wholesale home heating oil prices increased by €100 for a fill, with a further increase projected; — households now face bills of over €1,600 on a 1,000-litre fill of home heating oil; — despite these extraordinary

oil in their tank, how they have to stretch or what they have to go without because of the price of home-heating oil. Some 700,000 families right across the State have seen the cost of that fuel increase dramatically. It has increased by over €700. Nine … people the length and breadth of this State who are struggling with keeping their heat on and struggling with the cost of home-heating oil. In the days after the budget announcement, the price of a fill of home-heating oil went up by €150. This Government

rent, people on fuel allowance actually getting less this winter than they got last winter, the tiny reduction in the cost of home heating oil that was already wiped out by immediate increases in prices, or people who rely gas being given even less support … terms of energy credits or taking on the companies which are ripping off those people. The reduction in the price of home heating oil, worth just €43 for a 1,000 litres fill, was immediately wiped out by rising prices. On budget day, the Tánaiste corrected the reporter

living crisis, it is rents, mortgages, groceries, insurance and across the board, but it is also the cost of fuel - petrol, diesel, home heating oil and all of the other fuels. All the Minister is doing in this financial resolution is extend the temporary reductions … again and has not done enough. One of the worst things the Government has done in this budget is in regard to home heating oil. People depend on home heating oil to heat their homes. Some of them are in low-income households. We and many others called

work, to pick up their kids from school and go about their daily lives and who have to rely on home heating oil to keep their home warm through the winter months. Families have seen the cost of oil skyrocket by hundreds of euro and all year … Government that it needed to intervene. We brought forward nine separate proposals to the Dáil to remove the carbon tax from home heating oil but the Government did nothing. It sat on its hands while people struggled. Days before the budget, Simon Harris said that help

fuel for the car and electricity. All the measures that the Government had an opportunity to something about, it did nothing on. Home heating oil is a particularly sore one for people who live in rural areas in poorer houses and who have no option other than … heat their home using home heating oil. That is the only option they have and yet the Government chose to do little or nothing about it, suggesting that leaving the carbon tax on home heating oil means they will be able to get a grant to insulate their

rate of carbon tax levied on marked gas oil. Finally, it provides for a reduction in the carbon tax rate on kerosene home heating oil to 2023 levels. Financial Resolution No. 5 provides an extension of the full current temporary excise rate reductions on auto diesel, petrol … time of the next budget. Financial Resolution No. 5 also provides for a reduction in the carbon tax rate of kerosene or home heating oil to 2023 levels. That is €48.50 per tonne of CO2 emitted. This is equivalent to around 14 cent per litre. The Government

ordinary people, put workers and families first, and support our proposal to deliver a real and meaningful cut in the price of home heating oil. The Government's €43 reduction on 1,000 litres was wiped out by a price hike of €150 within days of the budget … average cost of 1,000 litres of home heating oil in Dublin is now €1,631. This is a massive jump from last year's €936. This price hike is coming straight out of the pockets of workers already struggling to make ends meet. A record number

across the world, in response to heightened fuel prices. As a Government, we do not control the wholesale price of oil or home heating oil, but we have acted in a very significant way to assist households with the real impacts of the current energy crisis. The Sinn … fund actions today that will bring benefits long after tomorrow. It is also worth noting that the carbon tax element of home heating oil will comprise around 7 cent of the total cost on current average prices, while the non-carbon component of excise duty on home heating

Some 700,000 houses depend on home heating oil to heat their homes for their families. The cost of a fill of home heating oil has increased by €700 since January. In September, home heating oil prices had increased by 58.6% compared with the same month last year … carbon tax is another unfair tax heaped on families already reeling from the cost-of-living crisis. It should be abolished on home heating oil, together with a reduction in VAT to give real relief to families. This is all the more necessary against the backdrop of soaring

families who rely on home heating oil to keep their homes warm feel completely abandoned by the Government. They have already seen price increases of more than €700 since the start of the year. Let me tell the Minister what is happening in the real world. This … price list that companies that buy in oil for the Irish market were quoted last night. Home heating oil went up by €100 for a fill. This morning, it is projected to go up by another €50. What has the Government's response been on this? A pathetic

Tuesday evening last week, the Dáil voted to cut the carbon tax on home heating oil from €63.50 to €48.50 per tonne of CO2. It was argued then that the move would save roughly €25 to €40 on a standard fill. I voted against that resolution because … irony, it makes households more vulnerable to the next crisis. The Dáil passed that resolution on Tuesday. By Saturday, the cost of home heating oil had already risen by more than the cut in carbon tax. The €40 saving on a 500-litre fill was wiped

today than when the promise was first made to abolish them. I cannot see that as anything other than abject failure. On home heating oil, we all thought something was going to happen. I do not know how many Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael backbenchers spoke about … fuel at the pumps. I do not know how many of them said that something was surely going to be done about home heating oil. We know that people are paying €1,500 or €1,600, and sometimes even more, for a 1,000 litre fill

elevated cost of home heating oil, as my colleague Deputy Ó Murchú mentioned earlier, in Louth this week, the average cost of filling an oil tank is just over €1,600, and it is rising. This is leading to enormous anxiety, not just across rural parts … what we have in money we lack in vision. This is the problem. Some 700,000 homes are still dependent on home heating oil. We all want to see a transition to alternatives, but there are families and businesses that simply need their bills to be paid this

better example of that than home-heating oil. As a result of this reliance on imports, we are in a position of extreme energy insecurity, which puts us at the mercy of international oil market pricing. The surge in oil prices arising from geopolitical events has been drastic … households and businesses. An energy crisis has now contributed to what is a major cost-of-living crisis. PwC recently estimated that home-heating oil costs have surged a stunning 175% since August of 2020, one of the largest percentage increases in an essential item cost in Ireland

welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion on home-heating oil this evening. It is an issue that matters enormously to people in my constituency of Kerry and right across rural Ireland. As I stated previously, when we talk about energy prices in this House, we have … doors open and that is extremely difficult and challenging today. In Kerry, many households are particularly exposed to the cost of home-heating oil. For those families, filling an oil tank can mean a very significant once-off expense. It is very different from receiving a monthly electricity

iomarcacha ach níl dada sa cháinaisnéis seo faoi sin. The same failure can be seen in relation to fuel. A fill of home heating oil, and I have told the Minister many times, is now over €700 dearer than it was at the start of the year … kerosene went up €45 the day before las and he has come back with a €50 reduction in the cost of home heating oil, despite the fact that he knows that with the stroke of a pen he could do four times that. He has it within

good quality of life. Straight after the budget was announced, I got loads of messages asking what was happening with the home heating oil and the carbon tax. The Government had bigged it up so much that people were expecting something that would actually make a difference … message from the Government last week. That was the message to people across the west of Ireland who have been relying on home heating oil and who have not been able to get a fill of a tank. These are people who have no oil left and have

will end up with no benefit at the petrol pump because petrol and diesel are going to stay the same price. On home heating oil - it has cost approximately €700 more to fill a tank of home heating oil in the past year and a half - people will … into it. You might be able to go to town, if you are lucky on and off, and buy 5 gallons of home heating oil and try to connect it to the tank. That is the way most of the people in this country are in a crisis

have done. In the build-up to this budget, we were told that the Government was looking to pause carbon tax on home heating oil altogether. The kites that were flown by the Government said that there would be no carbon tax on home heating oil, but today … learned there will be a measly 25% reduction in the carbon tax on home heating oil. An 89-year-old woman came to my office a couple of weeks ago. She had paid €860 for 500 litres of kerosene. That was three weeks' income for 12 weeks

budget, while big developers once again get hundreds of millions in tax breaks. There is only a €43 cut in home heating oil despite a cost increase of €700. The fuel allowance is cut in real terms despite the prices of electricity and gas going … That would help workers and would not leave 1.5 million workers behind. We would cut energy costs by removing carbon tax from home heating oil. This would have saved people €183 on a full fill of home heating oil. We would reintroduce energy credits at a rate

hope that it would help people. People were let down. They felt genuinely disappointed. A key example is in relation to home heating oil. In the run-up to the budget, it was promised that the Government would get the balance right on home heating oil. There … nothing in terms of the actual impact of the cost-of-living crisis. Since the start of the year, a fill of home heating oil has increased by €713 or 75%. Does the Minister feel that perhaps the Government did not get it right in finding a genuine

rising cost of home heating oil is a significant concern for households across Ireland. Heating oil is not a luxury, and when heating costs rise, low-income families, older people, those with disabilities and families with young children must decide how to divide their limited household income between … heating, food, electricity, transport, crèche facilities, mortgage or rent payments, and other essential expenses. The average cost of 1,000 litres of home heating oil in September 2025 was €909. In September 2026, it was €1,444, an increase of approximately 59% in one year. This is according

prices on home heating oil and other oil-based fuel products; — that the Government continues to monitor increased energy prices that are felt across Europe and the globe; — that the Government fully understands the pressures on households that have arisen due to rising home heating costs … increased the weekly payment; — the trajectory of the carbon tax has been altered to ease pressure on households, with the rate on home heating oil and gas reduced and paused for the lifetime of the Government; and — a series of new schemes have been developed to help people

homes warm. Will it ignore this one as well? Its amendment tells me that it will, and shamefully so. People who use home heating oil to heat their homes know that winter is coming and they are panicked. I want to be very clear with the Minister … were not shy in telling me about it. They need help to heat their homes. They need the carbon tax taken off home heating oil so that they have a chance to be warm in their homes this winter. That should not be an aspiration. This is Ireland