Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 July 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed)
4:10 pm
Ms Caroline Fahy:
The Commission for Energy Regulation has had a number of calls for submission on this and it is becoming increasingly difficult to respond to it because of the lack of information. The ESRI report on affordability has not been published, which leaves us in the dark. As I said earlier, we have tried to look at it. If a household is to be charged €240, if Irish Water needs to invest a certain amount in the infrastructure and if the Government is going to gather €500 million from it, those figures do not add up. This leads to the likelihood that people will end up paying more than €240, and it is not-----