{"id":354813,"date":"2026-03-19T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354813\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:10:10","slug":"morning-report-nicola-willis-faces-questions-about-the-fuel-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/354813\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Report: Nicola Willis faces questions about the fuel crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4JRITIO_Image_4_jfif.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"700\" alt=\"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis face questions on the fuel crisis.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\nPrime Minister Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis face questions on the fuel crisis.<br \/>\nPhoto: RNZ \/ Samuel Rillstone\n<\/p>\n<p>The Finance minister says she&#8217;s looking at targeted support for workers impacted by sky high fuel prices.<\/p>\n<p>Nicola Willis told Morning Report she&#8217;s instructed IRD and the Treasury to work on measures to help ease the burden on households.<\/p>\n<p>She says she doesn&#8217;t want to see people unable to drive to work, because they can&#8217;t afford fuel.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Willis says she would hope to see the package introduced before this year&#8217;s Budget &#8211; but that will be up to Cabinet to determine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Finance Minister Nicola Willis face questions on the fuel crisis. Photo: RNZ \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[643,72,2158,113,61,60,43,2159,2157,2155,2156],"class_list":["post-354813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-audio","tag-business","tag-current-affairs","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}