Fuel Poverty Conference

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This conference will bring together academics and policymakers to discuss the role of research in designing policies to tackle fuel poverty.

It will also discuss the challenges of measuring fuel poverty and strategies to improve policies aimed at tackling it. 

Event programme

10:00

Welcome Address

Alan Barrett (ESRI, Director)

Session 1: Research and data

Chair: Muireann Lynch (ESRI) 

10:20

Fuel poverty research in the Energy Poverty Action Plan (Miguel Tovar, ESRI)

Miguel Tovar (ESRI)

10:40

Matching the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) and Building Energy Ratings (BER)

Gerry Brady (CSO)

Q&A

11:10

Coffee break

Session 2: Measurement and targeting

Chair: Muireann Lynch (ESRI)

11:25

Challenges with measuring fuel poverty

Javier Palencia (UNED, Spain)

11:45

Targeting challenges

Arya Pillai (Central Bank of Ireland, previously ESRI)

Q&A

12:00

Panel discussion

Representatives from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, CRU, SEAI, and the Department of Social Protection.

12:25

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