Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion

Mr. Mark Foley:

It is a fact that when we called out the issue of generation capacity in 2021, that was predicated on the failure of the market. If the market had delivered in 2021, we would never have been having the conversation about temporary emergency generation. That is a fact.