A Lisburn councillor has warned that people struggling to ‘heat or eat’ this winter could end up chopping down trees to burn on their home fires.
The dystopian vision was expressed during a debate at Lisburn and Castlereagh District Council’s leisure committee on whether to increase funding for community groups heading into the cost of living crisis this winter.
A motion by Killultagh councillor Sian Mullholland (Alliance) had called for the merger of a £50,000 hardship fund and a £30,000 planting programme fund to total a single £80,000 pot of cash for community groups.
