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

First, I would say that this has been incredibly successful. I would say the same about any scheme where one has got a doubling from 2021 to 2022, and then a doubling again from 2022 to 2023. Those sorts of numbers, with 22,000 homes involved this year, are not small. It is hugely successful, and a very welcome success in times of high energy costs.

On what the supply companies do with regard to flexible rates and incentives to customers to be able to sell power back, and also to purchase power at flexible rates, that needs to improve. We have 13 different supply companies.

On the time-of-day pricing and flexibility, particularly now with 1.5 million householders using smart meters and pretty much all those with PV being able to use smart metering, we need to become more innovative in promoting and incentivising more flexibility in selling power back and also in purchasing power.

The main constraint, I would argue, is not bureaucratic; it is the number of contractors and the supply chain. That is improving because contractors are seeing steady, strong demand. That has been the biggest constraint rather than any bureaucratic hold-up.

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