EU Meetings
Dail Éireann — 2022-09-20
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Rose Conway-Walsh (SF), Mayo

Since last year, I have been raising the need to end the crazy situation whereby sky-high gas prices set the price for all electricity, and the need to decouple electricity prices from gas prices.
Each time the Minister, the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste have dismissed it out of hand. It is unacceptable for the Minister to continually hide behind the EU. Energy policy is a shared competence between the EU and member states. It is simply not good enough for the Minister responsible for energy to take such little responsibility during the cost-of-energy crisis.
I want the Minister, here and now, to clarify his position on the decoupling of gas from the setting of the price of electricity. Has that changed since the Taoiseach said that it was not his analysis and since the Minister dismissed it before when I raised it in the Chamber months ago?

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Sitting date: 2022-09-20