Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion
Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein)
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These would be dynamic tariffs, similar to what is in Germany, whereby people would get a notification on their phones to inform them that a certain time would be a good one to use a large appliance. The problem with it starting at 11 p.m. is that the fire brigade and other organisations concerned with fire safety are advising people not to switch on large devices when they are going to bed, and this is the time when most people would be going to bed, if they had not gone already.