People 'more than justified in not paying' extortionate energy bills, claims Richard Boyd Barrett

TD says a €15bn cost-of-living package could be paid for by windfall taxes and increased tax on those earning €100,000 

Richard Boyd Barrett TD said: '[W]e would take it back from the wealthy in wealth taxes and in windfall taxes and increased levels of taxation for those earning over €100,000.  File picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

A €1,000 payment to every household in the country is among the measures contained in a €15bn cost-of-living package being proposed by People Before Profit-Solidarity.

The group also wants to cap energy bills at the price they were late last year, which would amount to a 25% reduction for households, and has called on the Government to take the energy sector back into public ownership.