Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Recent Cost-of-Living Measures: Discussion
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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I had a question about energy prices. Ireland produces more renewable energy than we have ever done before but that has not had an impact on the cost of electricity. In fact, the cost of electricity has increased rather than decreased. Does that situation give pause for thought as to what is going on? Even though we can increase our supply of renewable energy, which we have been told is the answer to the difficulties that we now face, but that has had no impact whatsoever on the price of energy.