Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I was going to raise the issue of disconnections; I hope I will get a chance to do so. I wish to follow up on the issue just raised, however. A decision was made 12 years ago that this tariff would be applied. The commission assumed it was being applied as a €50 million tariff but the ESB was applying it as a percentage. How can that discrepancy happen? That seems to be a large oversight on behalf of the regulator. From where did the direction come? Did it come from the CRU to the ESB that it could apply that tariff and the means of doing it? Is Ms MacEvilly saying the CRU told the ESB it could apply this additional tariff but it was to be done to the amount of €50 million?