Time is running out to protect Ireland’s most vulnerable from unprecedented winter bills say 42 groups working across poverty, housing and the environment.
But they have written to the government with a plan of how to help the worst off in their upcoming Budget.
Immediate measures they called for include increased welfare payments, doubling fuel allowance payments, free insulation, retrofitting and solar panels on all social homes and taxing energy firm profits and using the revenue to protect the poorest as the cold draws in.
