Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities
2:00 am
Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein)
I thank the CRU for its presentation. The PR6 published recently by the CRU states that domestic customers would be paying increases of between €6 and €16 annually to fund the €18 billion needed to invest in the country's electricity system. A deep dive found that would be up to €80 a year, a 21% increase, whereas data centres will see an 18% reduction in their costs. Why is that?
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