Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion

Photo of Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent)
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I have a question for the witnesses from the CRU. I made a submission to its previous consultation in which it chose not to take a strong regulatory approach in regard to data centres. That review of data centres and their energy usage took place just a couple of years ago. Was that not the point at which there should been a question about the subvention? I point out to the Minister of State that industrial licences for gas plants were granted just last year to Microsoft.