Social Tariff System

Part of Private Members’ Business – in the Northern Ireland Assembly at 6:00 pm on 29 September 2009.

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Photo of Jennifer McCann Jennifer McCann Sinn Féin 6:00, 29 September 2009

Members have talked about the definition of “fuel poverty” and about who can afford to heat their homes and have electricity. Is the Member aware that the deaths of approximately 2,000 elderly people over the past six years were caused by cold-weather-related illnesses? People who do not have the money to heat their homes or put on the electricity — when we talk about fuel poverty, that is what we are talking about.