Mr. Fergal Mulligan:

We recently published the update for October this year. There was an increase of approximately €29 over the course of 2025 to 2026. That was an average of €2.50 per domestic householder. It will be a lot more for large energy users based on what they use. That update is for the forthcoming year. In May this year, we published the draft decision on what we call PR6, which is the every five-year price control on the ESB and EirGrid's network infrastructure plans. We have just finished PR5. Based on the numbers provided by ESB and EirGrid, we estimate in the draft decision for PR6 that, over the coming five years, the annual increase could be up to approximately €15 to €16 per annum. That depends on them successfully delivering on the plans they have submitted. If they do not, the increase could be less because we check that every year.

We only allow them to recover what they actually spend.