We’ve got been introduced but extra unwelcome information — fuel costs have been raised; and electrical energy and home oil costs are more likely to observe.
The utilities and the regulator inform us that is inevitable given occasions in japanese Europe. Maybe that is right, however what’s the authorities/ regulator doing to make sure that any earnings, and every other firm assets are getting used to melt the blow to customers, and to not soften the blow to shareholders?
I’ve seen the streets and pavements round my dwelling, and all through cities like Ballymena, dug up and left in a deplorable state — residents have endured months of noise, grime and inconvenience to permit utility firms to pursue their enterprise pursuits.
Will pre-Covid/ pre-world-gas-price-crisis earnings be used to re-instate our streets, roads and pavements? It appears that evidently the Division for Infrastructure isn’t fairly positive what the phrase reinstatement means.
Mrs Florence Robinson, (Aged 90) Ballymena
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