Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 December 2013

Committee on Transport and Communications: Select Sub-Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Rationale for Sanctioning Energy Price Increases: Discussion with Commission for Energy Regulation

2:40 pm

Mr. Dermot Nolan:

Under statute the Minister has the authority to give the CER a policy direction, where he must be openly consulted and at the end of which he can give a direction to pursue a particular policy. I hope I am right in that this cannot relate to a very specific entity, as in he cannot say that something must be done for entity X or commercial entity Y. Nonetheless, the policy direction is there.

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