{"id":524250,"date":"2026-04-11T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524250\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T00:16:08","slug":"ni-leaders-urge-prime-minister-to-take-action-over-fuel-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/524250\/","title":{"rendered":"NI leaders urge Prime Minister to take action over fuel costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement issued on Friday, Michelle O&#8217;Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly said: &#8220;We are deeply concerned about the escalating pressures facing families, workers and businesses as fuel and energy costs continue to rise. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The cost of fuel is putting significant pressure on, with increases not sustainable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our hauliers, our farmers, and small and medium-sized enterprises are facing sharply increased operating costs too and these costs are inevitably being passed on further, deepening the cost-of-living crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Families and businesses cannot continue to absorb these sustained increases without intervention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Nipsa trade union also warned that the &#8220;rising cost of getting to work is placing significant pressure on household budgets&#8221; and is &#8220;calling on employers and government to take urgent, practical steps to support workers&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement issued on Friday, Michelle O&#8217;Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly said: &#8220;We are deeply concerned about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-524250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}