Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

General Oversight of EirGrid: Discussion

Mr. Mark Foley:

That is before the emergency generation crisis. We called it on 14 February 2021 in the Minister's office. That is when EirGrid called it because the market had failed. I am not sure. We could debate at length who said what when, but our calling of this crisis was in February 2021, on the back of a failure of the market. That is why we are here. That is why the Government passed legislation and-----