Dáil hears elderly woman used money for husband's headstone to pay electricity bill

'When her family called around to visit last night, they found her sitting in the dark, terrified of switching on the lights, worried sick about what the next bill might be.'

An elderly woman in County Laois has had to use money set aside for her recently deceased husband’s headstone to pay an electricity bill.

Sinn Féin TD Sorca Clarke told the Dáil the woman who was living alone after her husband passed away last year, received an electricity bill for €760, which she cannot afford.