Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I was going to ask the witnesses from Wind Energy Ireland about how Ireland has been an expensive place to produce renewables and what we can do but Mr. Cunniffe just answered that question. We had legislation about a renewable energy task force. Is there anything else that the Government can do to reduce the cost of producing energy?

My next question is for ESB Networks and concerns standing charges. We have the PSO levy. A lot of people fear that if we move away from the international gas markets to renewables, those costs will be reduced but the cost of the standing charges will nearly make up for all of that. It was mentioned in light of the storm that consumers would have to pay for the restoration efforts in their bills. Is this going to be the case? Will there be more standing charges in the future? What is happening with Derrybrien wind farm?