SDLP Communities Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has criticised the prolonged roll out of the £200 energy support payment. The scheme…
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One-off £200 energy support payment delayed by a day
One-off £200 payments to help people in Derry and across the North of Ireland struggling with rising energy costs will…
‘Use unspent £3m Covid reserve for Hardship Emergency Fund’
People Before Profit Councillor Shaun Harkin has said that Derry City and Strabane District Council should use unspent £3m Covid…
Durkan: SF ministers asleep at wheel as families struggle
SDLP Communities Spokesperson Mark H Durkan said it is unbelievable there was £100m unallocated in the Assembly’s January monitoring round…
£2m fund to help families tackle rising fuel costs
Emergency payments totalling £2 million are to be made available to those “severely impacted by the fuel crisis”, the Department…
Durkan highlights Sinn Féin’s fuel poverty double standards
SDLP Communities Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has highlighted double standards from Sinn Féin on fuel poverty. Speaking in The Dáil…
Durkan: All UC claimants should receive winter fuel payment
SDLP Communities Spokesperson Mark H Durkan has urged Minister Deirdre Hargey to extend the winter fuel payment to all households…
Tierney calls for urgent fuel poverty strategy
SDLP Derry councillor Brian Tierney has called on Sinn Féin Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey to urgently publish a fuel poverty…
Stormont protest: Action on hardship before Christmas recess
A ‘hardship crisis’ emergency meeting of more than 60 anti-poverty campaigners, community organisations, students, trade unionists and political representatives from…
McLaughlin: Executive must act to help struggling families
THE SDLP’s Sinead McLaughlin has called on the Stormont Executive to help families across the North of Ireland who are…