Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

I did not indicate in my answer that these are matters in which the Government has no function. I indicated that the sectors to which the Deputy referred were sectors in which the prices were set by the Commission for Energy Regulation. Electricity and gas tariffs are the responsibility for the CER, and that is the statutory position. With respect, they are not the responsibility of the Government and these were the particular examples given by the Deputy.

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