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support people who are struggling the most. There is almost nothing in this package for low-income households who are reliant on home heating oil and unable to pay the 80% spike in prices. The Government seems to think that it does not have to help because

cold, hard Christmas for many people. Economists are saying this will last for six months. The cost of 1,000 litres of home heating oil has shot up by €80 in the past month alone, affecting nearly a million households. Last week, the Government voted down our People … They are calling for an emergency cost-of-living payment before Christmas so they can put food on the table and keep the heating and lights on. They will be protesting outside the Dáil next Tuesday to demand their rights

unable to cope. Could the Government not see that the country was already in crisis before the tractors had arrived in Dublin? Home heating oil jumped nearly 70% in a single month - the biggest increase ever recorded. Irish households are paying some of the highest electricity

taxes on that if you want to tick the box? HVO, with modifications to a boiler, could be used in place of home heating oil and in diesel cars and tractors if it was made attractive to use. We put constructive proposals forward for the simple reason that

move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That" and substitute the following: "Dáil Éireann declines to give the Home Heating Oil (Emergency Mineral Oil Tax Reduction) Bill 2026 a second reading on the grounds that related matters are being considered as part of Budget … fuel costs are placing on households, on farmers and on businesses. These pressures are real. They are being felt at the pumps, in home heating bills and in the cost of running farms and businesses. The conflict in the Middle East has created economic pressures far beyond

kerosene go dtí go bhfeicimid athrú suntasach ar an staid geopholaitiúil. Government failed to deliver meaningful relief for families dependent on home heating oil in this year's budget. The meagre €43 reduction delivered on the price of 1,000 litres of oil was completely wiped out following … struggle. The average price of 1,000 litres of oil in Kildare has increased by 80% since this time last year, with families now paying €1,641 for a fill. That is shocking. A warm home should not be a luxury, yet that increasingly seems

continuation of the reduction in VAT on electricity on gas. We saw during March and April significant increases in the price of home heating oil. Thankfully, that has now come back to a degree but it was certainly a shock to the budgets of many homeowners. While … Department, how can we prepare for such a shock, if it were to happen again in the coming winter, in terms of home heating kerosine prices

also pragmatic approaches around the likes of energy. I see in my own constituency that the majority of people rely on home heating oil. We are now taking pragmatic steps through the likes of battery storage, the boiler scrappage scheme and encouraging more solar panels, while also helping

absolutely struggling and are out of their minds with worry about how they are going to fill their car and buy heating oil. We are trying to be constructive and bring forward solutions. I just heard the Minister say, and virtually all the TDs on the Government side … nothing. Does the Minister know what happened on the first day of this crisis? Prices went up on petrol, on diesel and home heating oil. He is the Minister and what did he do? He did nothing for three weeks. He has done nothing. This

reductions in the price of diesel and petrol, we cannot avoid dealing sufficiently with the huge costs people are paying for home heating oil. We have to protect ourselves. We also need to eventually play our part in developing a roadmap to a better world where we will

only tinkered at the edges. A modest cut in excise was wiped out almost immediately. There was absolutely no action on home heating oil and no meaningful support for workers. We told the Government clearly that its half measures would not cut it. Remember, we also provided … with an alternative that would have made fuel affordable and would have supported people, but the Government walked away. It sent the Dáil home for 20 days while people struggled. That was 20 days while costs surged and families were left to cope alone. Taoiseach, I wrote

been put out from Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and some of the Independents, telling us all about the tax cuts on home heating, oil and gas. This has been celebrated by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael TDs on all of their social media channels. Fair play and well … network is not available to them, or which cannot afford to buy thousands of euros worth of barrels of oil or kerosene to heat the house and put in the radiator system. There are houses which were quite often bought in the sixties, or maybe the late sixties

ever. Many households and small businesses are on the brink. The price of green diesel, for example, is at unsustainably high levels. Home heating oil has hit record prices and the Government still refuses to cut it by a single cent in excise. Record numbers cannot pay their … families, one in four, cannot pay their gas bills. Yet we have a Government that plans to increase taxes on gas, home eating oil and coal in the autumn, just a couple of months away, as people face into the winter. Most people, schools, organisations and businesses have

sitting back and monitoring the situation. For them, the impact has been immediate and unavoidable. Petrol and diesel prices are soaring, home-heating oil has shot up by 80% and gas prices are rocketing. These are not abstract fluctuations on international markets. These are astronomical price increases that … country who are already in crisis, for instance, elderly people sitting at home in freezing cold homes because their pensions simply do not stretch far enough, disabled people who are making choices between eating and heating, and parents of young children going into huge debt just to keep

energy is the cause of all the trouble. People on the roads are buying petrol and diesel. People at home are buying home heating oil and gas to keep themselves warm. People are entitled - this generation is as entitled as any to stay warm. It is a fright … cost of energy. We have oil off of west Cork and gas off the Kerry coast. We are not being allowed to tap into either. If we bring it from the nearest point, the poor people at home will pay for it. It is time we copped

know well, that when they get their deliveries every day from the ports, the oil comes out at the market price of the oil they have to replace on that day. The Minister, when he has his meeting tomorrow, will be able to explain to us public representatives … litre for unleaded petrol and diesel at some forecourts. A price of €846 is now being quoted for 500 litres of home heating oil. The same volume was approximately €494 this time last week. I was contacted by a haulier whose fuel card provider – you would know

year-old woman who is a constituent in my county. She paid €860 for less than half a tank of home heating oil for her house. That is the equivalent of about three weeks' income for her. The amount of oil she bought is unlikely … luxury good; it is a staple. People cannot do without fuel. They do not have an alternative to putting on the heat in their homes or to getting into the car to get to work. It is actively the Government's policy objective to increase the price

watching the price of fuel surge in real time. In the days since the US-Israel strikes on Iran, the cost of home heating oil has skyrocketed. We are hearing from people across the country and, in most cases, the price of a delivery has effectively doubled … This is the reality facing people right here, right now today. Workers, carers, farmers, pensioners and rural households have no alternative to heating oil. This is price-gouging with companies exploiting a crisis to squeeze more profit out of households already under severe pressure. This is an emergency

fossil fuels. In relation to the carbon tax, the Deputy has not referred to how the carbon tax that relates to home heating oil has been deferred until May 2026. The carbon tax gives us the capital to bring about permanent affordability measures for families. We are targeting … Agency, IEA. Those are not my statistics but the IEA's statistics. These are permanent changes for households, including schemes like the warmer homes scheme, which provides a 100% grant to fully retrofit homes, bring renewables to those homes, make them warmer and healthier, and bring about permanent

American lack of strategy. No matter what we might think of it, the Iranians had a strategy, and it was about impacting oil supply and hurting US assets throughout the region. We need a de-escalation; none of this is good enough. I do not believe the Government … looks like he has bitten off more than he can chew. Not only do we have to protect people as regards home heating oil, petrol and diesel, we need to make sure we play our part in standing up for international

biofuels levy, which, at 0.1 of a cent per litre, is not a big deal. However, it is also subject to the mineral oil tax. HVO biofuel substituted for auto diesel is subject to the same non-carbon component of excise. That makes no sense … major sources of emissions in this country. I should say that HVO is taxed less through VAT when it is used as home heating oil, but as a vehicle fuel it is taxed at the same rate as diesel. Why are we not saying that this

warm when he woke up in his house this morning? I will tell him who were not: the people who rely on home heating oil and have to choose between heating and eating. What has the Government done for them? Nothing that makes a single iota … Gallery as I speak this evening, so worried about the longevity of their livelihoods that they are still watching this debate. Home help carers and disability workers on the road from morning to night performing an essential role in every city, town, village and townland in this country

people cannot wait. The Tánaiste needs to use his powers now. He can do it by reducing the excise duty on home heating oil, petrol and diesel and easing the pressure on families across this State. He can also not bring in the Government's plan to increase … help them alleviate this cost, not to keep dithering and running around like it usually does. Elderly citizens cannot afford to heat their homes. We have commuters paying an arm and a leg to get to work and all along the Government is raking in huge taxes

European Union per capita. I agree with the Deputy on the point that not everybody is in a position to change their home heating oil tank. I think particularly of older people as well. It just simply might not work for people. Quite frankly, there is a difference … Government cannot do everything. The Government can help people with costs in general, including the cost of energy and filling the home heating tank through a variety of means, including the income tax system

place to the end of the year and, as the Deputy said, we are giving consideration to the issues of home heating oil and gas. There are limits to what any government can do. There are fiscal limits and limits in terms of having to work within … people are at particular risk of fuel poverty - almost 500,000 homes receive support - and we can do more to help them, that is a way of helping. For older people who live alone trying to heat the house, there are other ways through the social welfare system