Departmental Functions
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-01
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul reports today that it got 230,000 requests for help in 2022, 40% of which were about energy costs. While everybody is being hammered by the energy increases and profiteering of energy companies, one cohort is being even worse hit because the inadequate electricity credits the Government has given to people are not being given to this cohort at all. I got an email from one person in Enniskerry today. In a response from that person's management company, it was made clear that probably thousands of apartment dwellers are in this situation and that the Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2022 only covers meters with a DG1 or DG2 classification. If people have a meter with a DG6 classification, which thousands of multi-unit apartment dwellers have, they get nothing. They face bills of thousands and have not even got the €200 credit which, in and of itself, was inadequate.
Will the Taoiseach do anything for these people because they are being absolutely fleeced by profiteering energy companies?

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Sitting date: 2023-03-01