A senator has urged the government to stop “locking” Ireland’s most vulnerable households into costly oil and gas bills.
New figures reveal authorities continue to subsidise fossil fuel boilers in schemes targeted at the least well-off years after it stopped subsidising them generally.
Just 40 of 1,270 new heating systems installed last year under the two Sustainable Energy Authority Of Ireland schemes for those most at risk of fuel poverty were ground source heat pumps. The rest were oil and gas.
