Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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I do not dispute the significance of this issue but the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Burke, will have to come in and account for that.

As we are no longer in breach of the EU's emissions trading scheme, there will not be infringement fines. Similarly, with regard to the issue on the communications side and the common chargers, because it has been transposed there we will not be in infringement.

On the transposition of the European electronic communications code, as I said, there was a very lengthy period from December 2020 through to this year when we were not in compliance. On 14 March 2024, the European Court of Justice imposed a lump sum fine of €4.5 million. There was a daily fine was accrued over the period. Now that this has been transposed, it is just a matter of arranging the final payment, which we need to do quickly.