Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

5:00 pm

Mr. Seán Laffey:

Currently, we have approximately 990,000 domestic meters in place and we read those on a quarterly basis. We can offer consumption data to those properties. There are approximately 500,000 remaining properties that are not metered. The best we can do at present is offer them what the average consumption would be for a property of their type. As was outlined by Michael O'Leary, there is also an issue with multi-unit developments. An apartment block is generally managed by management companies. We put a bulk meter on those properties but we do not meter individual properties. If that article is transposed into law there is an issue in that regard with us complying with it.

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