'Most of my pension has gone on home heating oil'

"I'm a pensioner, we get paid every four weeks - my oil fill has just taken three and a half weeks of my four weeks."

— Pauline Buller , Other

"If you're elderly you're going to want your heating on at some point in the day but at what point do people turn round and say I have to choose between heating and eating?"

— Gareth Barker , Other

"It has been a very cold and damp winter, they were panicking any way - hopefully the spring kicks in now and the weather gets a bit warmer."

— Eilish O'Doherty , Activist

"We are giving our regular elderly customers a bit of time to pay if they need it to save them going without."

— Chris Lavery , Executive

"Let me be clear, any unjustified hike in costs for consumers is unacceptable."

— Caoimhe Archibald , Politician

"Whilst the announcement of a reduction in natural gas tariffs for homes earlier this week is welcome, over 60% of people in the north rely on home heating oil where we are seeing cost increases of more than 60% since last Friday."

— Caoimhe Archibald , Politician

"People across Donegal have been contacting me in shock at the huge jump in the price of home heating oil and fuel in recent days."

— Pearse Doherty , Politician

"It looks like blatant price gouging and it is a brazen rip-off happening in plain sight."

— Pearse Doherty , Politician

"Instead of simply asking regulators to review the market, the government must take direct action to protect households."

— Pearse Doherty , Politician

"Right now families feel like they are on their own."

— Padraig MacLochlainn , Politician

"There definitely tends to be more of a lag in petrol and diesel prices compared to home heating oil."

— Michelle Kelly , Executive

"Fuel price increases are out of control, a the reality is that the government is taking up to 65% in tax from every euro spent on fuel."

— Cllr Jack Murray , Politician

"For many households here, heating your home and getting to work or school are not luxuries. They are basic necessities."

— Cllr Jack Murray , Politician

"Households that rely on heating oil are often some of the most exposed to global fossil fuel price shocks because they sit outside the energy price cap."

— Simon Francis , Activist

"Those using heating oil were more exposed to the market than those protected by the price cap."

— Ed Miliband , Politician

"Petrol has now increased by 3p to 136p a litre since Saturday, while diesel is up by 5p to a 16-month high of 147p."

— Simon Williams , Executive

"I’ve heard about rises, but that example is extremely excessive."

— Martin Lewis , Celebrity

"Sadly, barring doing the comparison and collective buying, I don’t have many solutions on that."

— Martin Lewis , Celebrity

"We have under‑regulated home heating oil in this country for far too long and left people in rural communities in the lurch on it."

— Martin Lewis , Celebrity