Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 7:

In page 4, line 32, to delete “domestic electricity accounts” and substitute “active domestic electricity accounts”.

This amendment is linked to amendment No. 1. It substitutes the words "active domestic electricity accounts" for the words "domestic electricity accounts". This is tied to the proposal in amendment No. 1 to use the information the ESB has on the use of electricity in households. This information, which is given to the Central Statistics Office, CSO, is used to identify which homes may be vacant homes or holiday homes. Amendment No. 1 provides that an amount of energy consumption be used to identify holiday homes. It would, therefore, allow the measure to be slightly more targeted and would prevent those who have holiday homes from receiving the rebate, or do a decent job of trying to identify those who have holiday homes.