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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: I will move on to the broader issue of the recovery of the sector. Will the witnesses give a sense of how strongly or otherwise the sector is coming back and the trajectory for the year ahead? On a previous occasion when they were before the committee, we talked about loading. Will the witnesses give us a sense of the recovery of aviation in Ireland? It seems to be strong.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: I apologise for interrupting. It is hard to tell but does Ms Embleton think Zoom meetings and conducting business online is something that will be sustained or is she saying that she has seen it change this summer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: Will Ms Embleton put a percentage on it? What percentage of leisure travel and trips to visit family and friends is back and what percentage of business travel is back?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: What about business travel? Is business travel back by 50% or 60%?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: One of things we will be concentrating on as a committee, and we have the national aviation review coming up, is the question of regional balance. We have a very strong and dominant Dublin Airport. We also have Cork, Shannon, Ireland West Airport Knock and, on an all-island basis, Belfast. Will Ms Embleton comment on the type of considerations the likes of Aer Lingus factors in when...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Recent Issues Concerning Aer Lingus Flight Booking and Check-in Services: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: Outside of Dublin, what is the case for regional and other international airports? I take the point that it is around the demand being there. Is there anything else?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: Mr. Fenlon says he has been monitoring the hardship fund. Has demand increased over time? Does he think people are aware of the fund in the first instance and what is the pattern of demand? Electric Ireland stated €3 million has gone to 4,000 customers. That is roughly €750 per customer. Has demand increased as the price of energy has increased? The fund has been in place...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: How many vulnerable customers, by the CRU's definition, does Electric Ireland have?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: By the CRU's definition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: I will interrupt Mr. Fenlon because I am managing my time. The €3 million needs to be increased and more people need to be made aware of the fund. Does Mr. Fenlon know what percentage of Electric Ireland's electricity supply is gas and non-gas generation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: The witnesses do not know. An issue that has come up repeatedly is dual pricing. Dual pricing in the insurance market has been criticised but essentially, Electric Ireland does that. New customers get a better tariff than existing customers. Has Electric Ireland considered, as has been widely called for by a range of agencies, putting every consumer on the lowest possible tariff? I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: If the CRU insisted that Electric Ireland offer the lowest tariff I presume it would have to act on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: How many pay-as-you-customers does Electric Ireland have?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: A disconnection moratorium applies to some customers, including vulnerable customers at the moment and customers more generally at the start of December. Can Electric Ireland give a commitment that it will not disconnect people over this winter? There has been a lot of focus on extreme hardship and on those pay-as-you-go customers. Can it give that commitment and what will it look like?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: Disconnections have increased this year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: 712 for half a year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: More than half then were Electric Ireland customers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: And more than half of the disconnections.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)
Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses. I will focus on the cost of connections and the speed and flexibility of the organisation in facilitating connection requests. We have heard from a number of representative groups and community groups that the cost is very expensive by international comparison and prohibitively expensive in some cases for community groups that might be considering projects around...