Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is right that in some areas we are leading. There are not many, and I am not too sure whether we are leading in some of the areas he mentioned, but an area where I know we are not leading but falling dramatically behind is that of demand management efficiency and domestic home management energy systems. We have no smart metering programme roll-out ready. We have been working on this. I remember working on it seven or eight years ago, when it was first thought about and ready to go, but for five years nothing has happened. Demand management and efficiency saving is the first step. What are our plans for smart metering? When will we roll it out? I am very much conditioned by the fact an opportunity is opening up to us. Yesterday the climate committee heard interesting figures, that the UK received £3.5 billion in funding-----

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