Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein)
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I would like a back-and-forth in my five minutes if that is acceptable because I have some specific questions to ask.

On the story about large energy users being subsidised by domestic users and the practice of rebalancing tariffs, which went on for 12 years, I understand the Minister contacted what would have been the Commission for Energy Regulation in 2009 to ask that the rebalancing be made permanent. While the Government memo at the time conceded that this measure would be unpopular, it was stated that domestic users could still shop around or reduce energy use to bring down their costs. What was the reaction of the commission to this, bearing in mind it is an independent body? Did it carry out any analysis of what the impact would be on domestic users if network tariffs were balanced in favour of the large energy users?