Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

ESB Networks: Commission for Regulation of Utilities

Dr. Paul McGowan:

I would not characterise it like that, namely, that we discount the environment. Given our statutory functions, the main means we have by which we ensure that the utilities we regulate discharge their environmental obligations is to ensure that they are adequately funded to do so and it is through the price control that we achieve that.