Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Before Mr. Boland responds to that, all Senator Murphy has to look at is the implementation by the electricity companies here in this country of an EU directive to pay people for the surplus electricity they generate in their own homes via microgeneration. It took more than 12 months for any of the operators to start paying it. To the best of my knowledge, not one of them backdated it to that date. There is therefore a real reluctance and hesitancy on the part of the operators here to actually pay for microgeneration.