Ms Justina Corcoran:

Yes. There is a smart energy steering group chaired by my division, and CRU, SEAI and ESBN are all members of the group. Last week, we had all of the suppliers come in to do a workshop, which gave consideration to the fact that while we have 1.6 million smart meters installed. Of the number of people who are signed up to a smart tariff only 20% of them have access to the data and maybe 10% of those have a smart tariff, which is a lacuna in the offerings and we tried to figure out why that is the case. Some of that is because it is difficult for people to change behaviour. A lot of people just cannot change their usage. If I am out of my house working from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., I only have the hours between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. so I must have assets in place. If I have solar power and a battery, I have the means to shift that behaviour.