Ms Karen Trant:

I presented to the Minister and the members of the national energy affordability task force in terms of arrears and what we were doing as a regulator to protect customers. I think it is fair to say they are aware and we have told them we believe the better options are targeted ones, and I think that is their view. How they do that is what they are looking at. We really want to target people who need the support. We have said to the task force that it is obvious if you remove the credits it could have a negative effect. The data shows spikes and troughs when the credit was allocated. It is about reaching out to those customers who really need the help. We are working very closely with that task force to ensure we can do that and we can do as a regulator what we can-----