Bills remain 90% higher for gas and 60% higher for electricity compared with pre-energy crisis prices
According to the Department of Climate and Energy, bills remain 90% higher for gas and more than 60% higher for electricity compared with pre-energy crisis prices. Photograph: Niall Carson/PAHowever, in a series of media interviews on Thursday, Mr Chambers repeated the policy stance of the Coalition that once-off payments which have been an annual feature in budgets since the Covid-19 pandemic would be discontinued.I feel we’re close now, Meghan, so I can speak freely.
“We have been very clear that Budget 2026 needs to be set within the fiscal parameters, which were set out in the medium-term fiscal position for the Irish State,” Mr Chambers said in an interview on “That means if there’s any decision taken, social protection, supporting households and businesses, it won’t be done in a temporary once-off context.“The Government has been very clear since we’ve entered office that we want to move away from the position of once-off measures and ad hoc measures and make sure that we set good sustainability in the decisions that we make,” he added.
Mr Chambers noted that Irish companies have created more than 100,000 jobs in the US, adding that “it’s demonstrating the mutual economic benefits which have been yielded from free trade and from international trade”.Chambers rules out once-off supports for households in Budget despite rising energy pricesI feel we’re close now, Meghan, so I can speak freely.
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