By Miriam Bell from NICVA
Published on 01 Feb 2005
NICVA's response to the consultation paper Towards a Fuel Poverty Strategy for Northern Ireland.
Organisations in the voluntary and community sector, such as NEA NI, have been campaigning for years to place the issue of fuel poverty on government’s agenda and NICVA welcomes the fact that it is now recognised that a strategy is required.
Fuel poverty is a serious issue in Northern Ireland with an estimated cost to the health service of £30 million per year due to cold-related illnesses. The personal and social costs may be much higher. Most starkly Northern Ireland still has a consistently high level of excess winter deaths running at over 1000 per annum.
Read NICVA's response in full:
Fuel Poverty Strategy (147kb)
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