Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Government now has a legal obligation to cut peak-hour electricity demand by 5% over the winter and a voluntary obligation to cut both gas and electricity demand by 10%. What policy tools has it identified to deliver this? As well as protecting people from higher prices, it is very important that we help them to reduce their usage so we become more resilient. I suggest that the revenue from windfall tax be put to facilitating this. Smart meters, shallow retrofits, sharing platforms and solar can all be part of a national resilience campaign. They would get a massive boost from such revenue to do that. The Tánaiste has said how fitting doors to fridges in many of our supermarkets could help to transform usage, but there is not sufficient support for that to be undertaken. Will the Tánaiste consider that?

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