Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

To add to her shock, she is being charged all of these arrears at the current electricity rate, compounding the financial hardship she is now facing. In the meantime, the electricity supplier gains excessive profits due to this inflated unit rate. The only obligation placed on suppliers is that they must attempt to take a meter reading four times a year.

After that, the onus to submit a reading is thrust back on the customer after a banal card is thrown into the letter box. In the UK, under the back billing rules, an electricity supplier cannot send a bill for energy used more than 12 months previously. What plans are there to do the same here?

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