Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to pick up on this point and ask the witnesses their view on the standing charge and whether the CRU needs to have greater powers over it. Once again, whether people are reducing their energy use for efficiency reasons or because they cannot afford not to do so, they are punished by the fact that the standing charge is increasing as they are reducing their energy use. Would the witnesses support changing this to allow the CRU to have greater powers to regulate it?