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That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the temporary reduction of mineral oil tax on home heating oil (kerosene used other than as a propellent) for the purpose of alleviating cost of living pressures; to provide for the extension of such … heating oil while people are just trying to keep their homes warm. The Minister, Deputy McEntee, along with her Cabinet colleagues, those in Fianna Fáil, the Independents and some in the Opposition, like the Soc Dems, vote to continue to place these taxes on home heating oil

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

Bill be now read a Second Time". Families and workers across the State are being ripped off by the cost of home heating oil. Prices are going up and up and for months, the Government has refused to act. This is not happening in isolation. At the same … rising. Energy companies are hiking their bills and groceries are getting dearer day by day, stretching household budgets. A fill of home heating oil is now approximately €700 more expensive than it was at the start of the year. The cost of home heating oil has jumped

withdraw cost of living supports; notes with concern that: — in this context, the rapid rise in the price of petrol, diesel and home heating oil has placed more pressure on workers and families; and — the Government has legislated to increase the price of home heating oil … heating oil is running out in so many homes. Now is the time for action and leadership. The Government should be standing up and saying it has heard the Irish people and it will reduce taxes on petrol, diesel and home heating oil because that is what

price of home heating oil has shot up by 85% in recent weeks. Last month, the price of 1,000 litres of home heating oil was about €950. This week is retailing for €1,750. This country saw the biggest increase in home heating oil in the whole … children at the moment. She is not alone. At the moment about 2 million people across the country are dependent on home heating oil. In the likes of counties Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim, there is no connection at all to the national gas grid and as a result

referenced over and over again the issue of the continued increases in the carbon tax by this Government on petrol, diesel and home heating oil. This week, we see that the cost of a fill of home heating oil has gone up by €80 as a result … does not take away from the fact that the Government has been instrumental in pushing up the cost of a fill of home heating oil by a significant amount, €220, in terms of carbon tax so far. Worse than that, the Government plans over the next five years

particular, it is hard to imagine something meaner. There is a crisis out there. Close to one in five households uses home heating oil. The price of home heating oil has gone through the roof, almost doubled. Many people are at a stage of needing to fill their … carbon tax. It is hard to imagine something more mean and inadequate. People will get €20 off for a full fill of home heating oil. Instead of paying the guts of €2,000 they might pay €1,980, so €20 off. I do not really know

time for so many families across the State. Amendment No. 1 probably sums that up best. It would remove excise completely from home heating oil. It is folly but we hear from Government all the time that there is no excise tax on home heating oil despite numerous … replies to parliamentary question saying over and over that there is excise duty on home heating oil in the form of carbon tax, and carbon tax is excise. We should really stop that stupid debate because this is legislation that deals with excise, a version of which

part of this legislation. It contains both excise cuts on fuels like petrol and diesel and the postponement of carbon taxes on home heating oil, green diesel and canister gas until October of this year. The excise cuts should have gone further on petrol, diesel and green diesel … their car. At the same time, the Government prioritised other areas. It cut private jet fuel by 17% while struggling to reduce home heating oil by a single cent. You could not make this up. The second component of this section is that the carbon tax is being

need to keep these things under review in the future. I will talk about another area I talked about during the campaign - home heating oil. Home heating oil is obviously not subject to excise duty but it still represents a significant cost. We have seen a significant increase … those who are reliant on home heating oil or kerosene across our country. We are closer to the next budget than we are to the last and it is important in that budget we ensure that if this conflict is still with us and if prices are still

power to deliver the maximum excise cut possible on diesel, a similar cut for petrol and to remove excise entirely from home heating oil. Motorists have been hammered for a month at the pumps and the Government could have done more, but instead it chooses to short-change … people. However, its standout failure is on home heating oil. It has literally abandoned the 750,000 households that rely on home heating oil. The price of a fill of home heating oil has doubled in a matter of weeks. A measly cut of 2 cent a litre

most striking is that the Tánaiste's Government is still not listening. Right across the State, over 750,000 households rely on home heating oil to keep their homes warm. For them, this crisis is not abstract. It is immediate and it is punishing. It is the difference … pressure and the clear message from workers and families right across this State, the Government still has not reduced excise on home heating oil by a single cent. There is nothing. The Tánaiste now expects a pat on the back for not increasing the carbon tax on home

temporary reduction of mineral oil tax on certain fuels including home heating oil (kerosene used other than as a propellent), petrol and auto-diesel (heavy oil used as a propellent) and green diesel (marked gas oil) for the purpose of alleviating cost of living pressures; to provide … demand for emergency action and for the Government to stop dithering and delaying, and to cut the taxes on petrol, diesel and home heating oil. Has the Government not seen the fact we are now being charged more than €2 per litre for diesel at many stations

home heating oil Bill seeks to remove the carbon tax from home heating oil to help households struggling with the ongoing cost-of-living crisis. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have not removed a single cent off home heating oil and they and Independent TDs have voted Sinn … rising grocery bills, higher insurance costs, increased household expenses and energy prices far above what families can afford. For those relying on home heating oil, filling the tank has become a huge financial burden. This is particularly true in rural communities in my constituency. I regularly meet people

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

short-changed them on diesel, he short-changed them on petrol and he completely abandoned the 750,000 households who rely on home heating oil. Most of these families do not receive the fuel allowance. They have seen the price of home heating oil double in a matter … amendment to the financial resolution that would give proper relief on petrol and diesel, completely remove excise and strip carbon tax from home heating oil, but the Government voted that solution down. It would not budge. Clearly, households being able to afford to heat their homes

reaction to the US-Israeli onslaught in the Middle East. People across the country are reporting massive hikes in the cost of home heating oil, with prices having increased by as much as 35% in the past number of days. The cost of home heating oil was already … cannot believe what they are seeing. This morning, I was contacted by a 94-year-old woman from Wexford who relies on home heating oil to keep her house warm. Only last week, the price for a half fill of oil from her provider was €464. By midday

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

Home-heating oil in Meath was an average €480 for 1,000 litres back in 2020. The average price this year is €1,330 for 1,000 litres with that price for 1,000 litres currently today at €1,649. Families across Meath are being hammered by massive … week on week. People across Meath have been contacting me each week in shock at the huge jump in the price of home-heating oil and fuel for their vehicles. Seven months into the crisis and, Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Independents have still not removed

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

which is only days away. The Tánaiste has been clear that Government is examining the best way to assist people whose home heating oil costs have already risen considerably. These include possible taxation measures and targeted supports such as the fuel allowance. The Department of Finance has also … published options on how the carbon tax framework might be modified for particular products, including home heating oil. These are decisions for budget day. In the budget, this Government will use the resources available to help people who work hard and who want to get ahead

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

were never under pressure like this before. Middle and low-income households that coped in the past are under increasing pressure. Domestic home heating oil's sky-high cost is a huge contributory factor. In Laois, 41% of households are totally dependent on kerosene home heating oil … Government is talking about it, but we need to act. The Government could reduce or stop the carbon tax on home heating oil under EU law. That is one of the things it can do. It should certainly reduce it or put the brakes on. The Government could

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

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will consider the maximum removal of excise home heating oil given the fact that home heating oil hit its highest price on record; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29358/26

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the projected increase in VAT revenue on home heating oil as a result of the increase in home heating oil price. [39795/26

Finance whether the measures announced include supports to assist households with the rising cost of home heating oil, given the continuing financial pressure faced by families reliant on oil-fired home heating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24092/26

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will consider the maximum removal of mineral oil tax on home heating oil given the substantial price increases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26927/26

Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if he is considering further energy supports for households reliant on home heating oil to support people struggling to heat their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26933/26

Fleming asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if a response will issue to matters raised in correspondence regarding the cost of home heating oil and kerosene which is used for approximately 700,000 Irish homes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter

oil companies since the escalation of violence in the Middle East; the steps his Department will take to combat this rise in home heating oil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19591/26

Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he will remove excise duty from home heating oil in recognition of the severe pressures faced by families as a result of soaring costs. [68612/26

Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the current total excise (carbon and non-carbon component) on home heating oil, petrol, diesel and green diesel; the amount received by the Exchequer from these taxes in each of the years from 2020 to date

Deputy John Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance if he has plans to review the tax treatment of home heating oil. [68451/26

Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the measures he will take to reduce the cost of home heating oil. [67871/26

Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the analysis he has undertaken to examine the tax measures available to reduce the cost of home heating oil. [68624/26

Social Protection if his Department has considered providing any additional social protection payment supports specifically for households who are reliant on home heating oil. [67645/26

Protection to confirm whether consideration would be given to introducing a support specifically for older people to help with the cost of home heating oil. [67543/26

deferred from 1 May 2026 to 14 October 2026; the average effect of that increase on a 1,000 litre fill of home heating oil; whether a further deferral is under consideration in the context of budget 2027; and if he will make a statement on the matter

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the rate of VAT currently applying to home heating oil (kerosene); the estimated full year cost of reducing that rate from 13.5 per cent to 9 per cent, in line with the temporary rate applied to domestic

Deputy Ged Nash asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the projected cost of reducing the VAT rate on home heating oil to 9%, from the current 13.5% rate for 2027; and the additional projected cost of introducing it from 6 October 2026. [67877/26

Barrett asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the additional supports he is considering to help families cope with increasing home-heating oil prices. [65816/26

provided to him in 2025 on carbon tax has set out the projected cumulative effect of scheduled increases on the cost of home-heating oil, coal, gas, petrol and diesel over the period to 2030; the specific figures contained in any such analysis; and if he will make

asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the current amount of carbon tax applied to a typical 500-litre fill of kerosene home-heating oil; the amount it will rise to following the increase scheduled to take effect on 14 October 2025; the further amounts it is scheduled

Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of times he intends to increase carbon tax on petrol, diesel, green diesel and home heating oil until 2030; the total amount in each instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58021/26

asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment whether the National Energy Affordability Taskforce is examining additional targeted measures to reduce home heating oil costs from September 2026 onwards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58539/26

Central Statistics Office; the specific data held by his Department on the annual percentage change in the price of eggs, fresh fish, home heating oil and motor fuels respectively; whether his Department has assessed the divergence between headline CPI and the cost of household food and energy staples

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the annual percentage increase in the cost of home heating oil and diesel respectively, in the 12 months to June 2026; the analysis carried out by his Department on the impact of this increase on households outside

asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the total amount by which he proposes to raise the price of petrol, diesel and home heating oil through increases to the carbon tax, in each year until 2030. [47951/26