Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What recent energy price hikes were announced?
You might have heard the news, RTE reporting the newsroom a few minutes ago, prepaid power, hiking, electricity prices by nearly 9% and gas by over 10%. Anne is on the line. Anne, are you worried about the direction of travel for your energy bills?
Yes, I am. Now, I'm not with prepaid power, but it's wonderful that the deal follows suit. Yeah. And then we're going to need energy credits before the budget, especially for pensioners. Now, I'm a pensioner and I'm just managing. But if it goes up like the hikes in prepaid power, you know, I mean, I don't know what I'm going to do.
They went up a huge amount after the... invasion of Ukraine and we had energy credits. Now, they've come down a bit since, but not back to what they once were. So, I mean, how did you fare this winter?
Well, it was higher. But then my last bill for January, end of January, beginning of February, was higher than my winter bill.
Okay.
And I've used roughly the same, about two or three units in the difference. But it was about 20 euros higher for my electricity And I'm on level pay with my gas and that was higher again.
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Chapter 3: How are rising energy bills affecting individuals?
The level pay has gone up again twice since December.
So you'd actually pay attention to how many you'd really look at the bill that way?
Yeah. I just keep an eye on my daily use and whatever. Yeah. And my level pay has gone up at nine euros in the last two bills. So I pay X amount of money for my gas and then I'm on a smart meter so whatever units I use I just pay it off every month, direct debit. But it's really gone to the stage where it's gone absolutely crazy. And I think the government are living in cloud cuckoo land.
They had been adamant that energy credits were a thing of the past, that there's no way we'd go back there.
Yeah, well, they're saying I always took so much off the fuel, some this, that and the other. I don't drive a car. I've never driven a car.
Because where I live, the bus stop coming home from out of town is, let's say, my next door neighbour's house. The bus going into town is across the road, straight over to my house. I don't need a car. And groceries are just going through the roof.
Yeah, the line is slightly given up. We'll stick with it for a moment and maybe it'll just correct itself. But, you know, what all the economists were saying a few weeks ago when the price of oil went through the roof was, you know, it's home heating oil today, but down the line it will be Well, it will be everything else.
I think, did one of the bin companies announce today as well that they're hiking their bin charges because of the cost of fuel? So any business that uses fuel, and that's agriculture and supermarkets and everything, are going to have to hike prices.
Yeah, talking about bin charges, my bin charges went up last month. About €2.50 a month.
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Chapter 4: What experiences did Anne share about her energy bills?
And at this stage, I really don't know anymore.
How closely then are you, I mean, if you're looking at how much energy you use on your bill every month, you're obviously paying attention to spending. Like day to day, are you very conscious of how much you're spending and how much is left?
Yes, exactly. I prefer to work with cash because I can see what's left in my purse, wallet, whatever you want to call it.
Yeah. Is it getting harder to do that, do everything with cash?
Yeah, well, I'm more conscious because I know what I've left, you know, and I've got, okay, no treats, no, like, no desserts after dinner, you know, I mean, all this kind of stuff, no takeaways, no nothing.
Yeah.
And years ago, you'd buy, like, a deal somewhere, a supermarket deal or something, and for maybe twice a week, now I'm not doing it.
So would you say your quality of life isn't as good as it once was?
No, it just takes a bit more work.
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Chapter 5: How do energy prices influence grocery costs?
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