Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will start by responding to Deputy Whitmore. There is one period specified in this Bill and it applies to the prices that were obtained by generators, to hedging arrangements, to traders and to other intermediaries. The price is to be captured through any of those different mechanisms. I am not sure it would make sense to have a different period for hedging arrangement from the period specified for all of those other participants in the market.

Deputy Mattie McGrath is worried that this Bill does not capture profits from large companies. In fact, this is the second windfall Bill. The first Bill was enacted in July and applied to fossil fuel oil and gas reserves and to oil refineries. That Bill has already collected €167 million in revenue from very large companies. This Bill will apply to those generating electricity, which are also generally very wealthy and large companies. The two Bills together are expected to collect up to €600 million over the period of two years, which is a sizeable amount of money.

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