Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 August 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Energy Supply and Security: Discussion
Ms Aoife MacEvilly:
I fully agree on the scale of the challenge and the call on us all collectively to do more and to do things differently. When we get together as part of the emergency plan that is the national energy security framework and groupings around that, we are being called on to deliver at pace and to do things differently in the crisis that is ahead of us. Some of the things we have been doing include our consultation on the network tariffs, which is different and we have called that out. It is a short consultation and it is a big change but we think it is necessary in the face of what we are looking at. Equally, we introduced protections around vulnerable customers without public consultation, only targeted stakeholder consultation, which was acting with agility and pace in the face of the crisis, which included reiteration of the requirement for suppliers to provide the most competitive tariff to vulnerable customers and which, in fact, expanded that to those on financial hardship prepayment meters. There is more we can do and we will be called upon to do it. Mr. Gannon might want to touch on some of these areas.
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