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Jonathan McCambridge

Government home heating oil subsidy must be meaningful, John O’Dowd says

Stormont Finance Minister John O’Dowd (Liam McBurney/PA) - (PA Archive)

Stormont Finance Minister John O’Dowd has said any Government subsidy for those who use heating oil to warm their homes must be “meaningful”.

Mr O’Dowd wrote to the Treasury last week calling for a financial intervention over the cost of the energy price spike caused by the war in the Middle East.

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