Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It could apply to every single scheme. If the SEAI is going to correct for that, it would be correcting for that right across all its saving predictions.

I would like to go back to the other issue the SEAI representatives raised, which was about these obligated entities. What exactly are their commitments now? I was surprised to hear the witnesses say these entities could decide for commercial reasons that they were moving out of one area and into another. I thought this was an obligation we put on them in lieu of their fossil fuel use, that they had a certain obligation. In that context, I would be interested to know if we can put obligations on, for example, generators such as wind generators, which are making very substantial windfall gains, to do something around demand management? How flexible is that tool of obligations?

We have seen significant changes in the relative cost of fuels, such as heating oil, which has gone up by 73% in the past 12 months. Solid fuels have gone up by 32%. Electricity is around the same at 38%. Natural gas has gone up by 60%. Is this having a noticeable effect on the choices that people make? In general, we would not like to see more people using solid fuels as a response to the energy crisis. Is that something that we should be aware of as a risk?