Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent)

I do not think anybody can accuse us of not having put a huge amount of our available eggs into one basket in terms of use. I do not even know if that is the right metaphor.

On the disjoin people are seeing between the decrease for these large energy users and bills and the increase in terms of domestic bills, the witnesses mentioned the temporary energy flexible generation piece. Can I check that because is 2021 to 2025 not the time when there was the previous scandal we dealt with in the previous iteration of this committee?

During some of the Covid subsidy period, domestic households were effectively paying more and paying a greater subsidy, basically subsidising large energy users in terms of their electricity bills. That was realised and had not been stopped. Everyone was asking why it had not been stopped much earlier. When did that occur exactly? We have had a previous record whereby households have subsidised large energy users. I do not know if the debt or the rebalancing that is needed is for large energy users having carried an undue weight previously. That is not what the record shows. What is the difference percentage of the change in bills for large energy users versus households if we discount the temporary energy generation piece?