Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Energy Prices: Discussion
Mr. Nicholas Tarrant:
It is difficult to draw a direct conclusion from data at any threshold as to what happens. There can be a variety of reasons for low usage by any customer. It is probably not our role to make a decision or recommendation around what a threshold is for an unoccupied dwelling. There can be all sorts of reasons, for example, somebody in a household is working remotely and their usage is low because of that or sometimes older people living alone have very low usage, for whatever reasons. Those are two examples but there could be many reasons for low usage. Coming back to our role around providing data, it is not our role to make a decision on a cut-off to decide if a property is vacant or not.
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