Mr. John Mullins:

I remember growing up in the 1970s on a council estate in Cork city. My mother always asked me whether the immersion had been turned off. The reality is that you have the ability if these are put in place to check whether the immersion has been left on or not and if you have a smartphone, you can switch if off. There is an additional advantage in terms of peace of mind if somebody in the house has switched on the immersion and the mother, father or the bill payer does not know about it. In addition, you do not want immersions on manually when you do not need to have them on, which clearly creates another carbon value we do not need. There is another use of these devices over and above the opt-in to the actual hot water tank for nothing so it is really important to point that out.