Social Dialogue
Dail Éireann — 2022-10-18
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

On the question of people who are paying multiple tariffs on gas and energy and are on district heating systems compared with those who are being massively ripped off on conventional contracts with energy companies, what will the Government do? For example, I met tenants from the new and much-trumpeted cost-rental development on Enniskerry Road. They were delighted to get cost-rental apartments, only to be shocked to discover that they are paying a tariff that is about four times what everybody else is paying and, as we know, everybody else is being ripped off on energy prices. People are looking at bills of €600 that are unpayable and they are also on pay-as-you-go contracts. This is a real concern for them. What will the Government do to make sure that people who are on district heating systems will not be paying tariffs that are multiples of the rip-off prices everybody else is already paying?

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Sitting date: 2022-10-18