Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 January 2013

Public Accounts Committee

Commission for Aviation Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Communications Regulation - Financial Statement 2011
Commission for Energy Regulation - Financial Statement 2011

12:15 pm

Mr. Dermot Nolan:

I have it directly here. I apologise. For 2010 it is probably the best figures I can give the committee - we do not have the full figures yet for 2012. For 2010 - just to be clear - there were 13,597 total electricity disconnections. For 2011 there were 14,508 electricity disconnections. In 2010 in residential gas there were 4,949; and in 2011 there were 4,240. My comments earlier to Deputy O'Donnell may apply. We believe that these figures are overstated because of vacant premises. The estimates I have given the committee are estimates and probably upper limits on that.