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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: Thank you, Mr. Gannon. I thank Deputy Bruton for those interesting questions. We might explore them as we go through the meeting. The next speaker is Deputy Bríd Smith.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: Yes, we can hear you well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: I hope the Deputy stays with us so we can explore some of those questions in further detail.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: There were other questions around the CRU's role in advising Government. There was a question around the remit and, I suppose, balancing the various remits of the CRU as well, and the models that it is using in doing so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Melvin. There was a question on the models that the CRU uses in the course of adhering to that trilemma, as Mr. Melvin calls it. Can Dr. McGowan shed light?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: I understand. It is a good question but I absolutely appreciate that it is a complex area. Deputy O'Rourke wants to come back on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: Deputy Whitmore is joining us from her office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: I will push it on. I will allow the Deputy to come back in but she asked quite a few questions. Will the regulator take those questions? I will then let the Deputy back in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: I want to be fair to other members, Deputy, and we will have a second round of questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: I want to be fair because other Deputies are waiting now. I will bring in Deputy Whitmore for the second round of questions, if she wishes to indicate then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: Deputy Costello has joined us. Does he wish to come in during the first round of questions as well?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: I call Deputy Cronin next, whom I believe is also joining us from her office.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: That is an interesting question. I call Ms MacEvilly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: That is a very comprehensive answer to something I have been thinking about for a while. I thank Mr. Gannon for that. I apologise to Deputy Alan Farrell, who I jumped in ahead of. Go ahead, Deputy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: Deputy Farrell asked about the establishment of the maritime area regulatory authority, MARA. Does the commission see that as critical to the 2030 objective or beyond that? Does Dr. McGowan have a comment to make on how the Government should prioritise the establishment of MARA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: If I could come in on that point, on which Deputy Farrell would probably be thinking along the same lines, Mr. Gannon has just touched on the global opportunity and referred earlier to the trilemma and the balancing remits of the regulator. Is this a fourth leg? It is not an official remit of the regulator to drive that, but it is an opportunity that Ireland has. If it is not the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: I thank Mr. Melvin and I thank Deputy Farrell. We will move now to Deputy Costello.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: I ask the witnesses to be brief. Deputy Costello arrived after we agreed there would be a two-minute period for questions and then go on to subsequent rounds. The Deputy is welcome to come back in on a subsequent round, but I want to be fair to other members who have indicated. I invite Ms MacEvilly to respond to those questions as briefly as she can.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)
Brian Leddin: Thank you, Ms Kavanagh. I have an additional question. Is the CRU resourced sufficiently to deal with the concerns and complaints the public might have about their energy bills? Are they getting a prompt response? Is all that okay or is it something that needs to be examined?