Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion
8:00 pm
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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Excuse me, how will their bundle increase? For a customer with ESB or Airtricity, what bundle will they choose that will reduce their emissions? We do not have smart metering at the moment, although it is being rolled out.
I imagine if that was rolled out it would provide people with data to enable them to monitor use and how they can make changes.
I do not buy the logic put forward by the ESRI representatives or the suggestion that there will be bundles to enable people to change their behaviour relating to electricity and heating their homes simply by increasing the €30 carbon tax. I do not see it. Can the ESRI explain to me specifically what a family that has a home heated through oil or gas will do differently if the carbon tax is increased by €30?