Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 September 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities

Photo of Lynn BoylanLynn Boylan (Sinn Fein)
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Given the trajectory, it is quite a large increase. Do we need more bespoke measures, particularly for gas customers? It might be something equivalent to the credit but just so there is something extra there because, as we know, it is gas that is inflating all of the prices, and people are relying on it heat and then there is the electricity as well. Is it of concern to the regulator, given the growth in it, that it might need a set of measures particular to domestic gas households?