AQO 1595/09 Oral question to the Minister for Social Development
To ask the Minister for Social Development for her assessment of the impact on fuel poverty of the failure of the Executive to meet for 5 months.
Asked by Naomi Long MLA on 25 November 2008
- Answered
- Oral
- Tabled
- 25 November 2008
- Answer due by
- 8 December 2008
- Answered
- 8 December 200813 days after tabling
- Department
- Department for Communities
- Priority question
- No
Answer
In response to the rise in energy prices I established the Fuel Poverty Task Force to look at how we could assist those people most affected this Winter. I brought a paper on Tackling Fuel Poverty to the Executive in September 2008 seeking their endorsement of a number of recommendations emanating from the Task Force. The Executive has yet to form a collective view on fuel poverty. Had the Executive done so, these recommendations could have been progressed more quickly.