Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute
2:00 am
Dr. Muireann Lynch:
Other factors include planning; the fact that we have a more dispersed population; our network costs are higher; historic underinvestment in the grid; the fact that we are a small island economy; the fact that the power system itself is isolated so we are kind of limited in the economies of scale we can get from our power generation; and the fact that we have not managed to invest in gas generation at all in about a decade, so we are having to run a bunch of really-----
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