Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The move to renewable energy should be centred on allowing consumers to benefit from lower electricity prices. That is why, as part of the previous Government, the Green Party legislated to give customers a legal right to dynamic pricing whereby they can benefit from changes to electricity prices and only use electricity at the cheapest rate. That right of consumers to benefit from the low price of renewables is being undermined by the regulator, the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, CRU. It has bowed to pressure from electricity suppliers and given them over a year longer to bring in a scheme from which consumers could benefit. When the cost of living is still so high for so many, does the Taoiseach agree with the Climate Change Advisory Council, which stated earlier that the Government and regulator must ensure that electricity suppliers offer customers price plans that allow them to save money? Will he ask the Minister to engage with CRU and make it clear that the regulator needs to protect consumer rights over the profits of suppliers?

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