Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

But the measures stay in place for 12 years. Was there a regular engagement with ESB Networks? The Government's version was that there was going to be a €50 million subvention per annum or a rebalancing in favour of large energy users. What ESB Networks seems to have proposed was that a percentage of the network charges would be skewed in favour of large energy users. Did it come forward with a submission to the CRU to state how it proposed to implement the Government's decision, and did the CRU engage with it on that? Later, in the CRU letter of November, the CRU admitted that more than €50 million per annum was likely to be paid. Who decided not to follow the proposal on the €50 million and to opt instead for a percentage model? Second, was there regular engagement every year on whether it was justified to continue for 12 years after the financial crash and when we had more large energy users coming into the market?

Does the CRU have the total amount? We have heard a figure of €600 million and another of €70 million per annum. Do we have an exact final figure for the cost to domestic users in the past 12 years?