Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

While many homeowners and electricity consumers will receive the €200 discount as compensation towards the spiralling cost of energy over the coming days, a number of others, unfortunately, will not. In certain multiple-apartment blocks, there is a single meter point reference number, MPRN, and the residents in the various apartments are facilitated through a pay-as-you-go system. Unfortunately, however, the electricity suppliers are providing the €200 rebate to only one MPRN in each block. We need to look into that and perhaps it could be taken up with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. I am aware of at least one apartment block in County Clare, comprising nine apartments, whose residents prepay for their electricity per unit on one meter. Because the complex is served by only one meter, the refund of €200 will be returned for the entire block, which is expected to be split between the nine apartments. That is not fair, given each individual unit will have its own costs, and it needs to be addressed at the earliest opportunity.