Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The first question for the CER is on efficiencies and this two-year review. When it is quantifying the amount of money that is being saved, is it looking at what is suffered as result of that saving or just that it expects this efficiency due to economies of scale and such issues? In its submission, I was quite concerned at the mention of the metering process. How does the CER consider that it would be part of its role to consider anything to do with metering? I cannot understand why it would contribute to that. I would not see it as a regulatory issue.

The witnesses talk about abandoning metering due to the cost, but 75% of it is finished. Why do the witnesses think it is their role to comment on it?