Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute
2:00 am
Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I thank everyone very much. I apologise for coming in late. I have one question arising out of the witnesses' opening statement. Dr. O'Toole mentioned that the cost base is moving towards more fixed costs and national tariffs and so forth. He said that it may be regressive and that it could be disproportionately on households vis-à-vis large energy users. Is the ESRI recommending that the tariffs should be imposed more proportionately or more fairly on the larger energy users, such as data centres, than on households, perhaps, or that they should be taking more of a share?
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