Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities

Ms Karen Kavanagh:

I was not directly involved at the time, but my understanding is that there was a communication conveying the Government policy. I think it said that it would be for the CRU to implement that and we published notification at the time setting it out in detail. It was to commence from 1 October 2010, so that would have been the first year of that revenue control. The details relating to implementation would have been part of that decision. There was a reference possibly in the note we submitted to the committee in November. If that is not there, I will find that and come back to the committee with the specifics. The details of the implementation, as in the split of the €50 million and how that was to be implemented between the two net operators, would have been set out in the decision paper.