Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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417. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the extent to which the regulator compares fuel prices in this country with those in other jurisdictions, adjoining and throughout Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25292/14]

Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)
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While the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) does not compare Irish and European fuel prices, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) analyses electricity and natural gas prices published by Eurostat, collected for Ireland and other European countries under the methodology for the EU Gas and Electricity Price Transparency Directive 90/377/EEC as amended by Council Decision 2007/394/EC. Since 2008, comparable data for all EU states is published every six months and the SEAI publishes the Electricity and Gas Prices in Ireland reports biannually. The latest published report covers the second half of 2013 and was published on 11 June 2014. This publication and other SEAI energy statistics publications are available at the SEAI website: www.seai.ie.