Energy Prices
Dail Éireann — 2026-04-16
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Timmy Dooley (FF), Clare

The Minister and the officials in the Department have been engaging with the CRU to emphasise the importance of this. We all know the impacts that people are feeling. We know that the cost-of-living crisis is a result of significant increases in inflation in recent times. Of course, we all desire to try to resolve this. As the Deputy knows, the Minister commissioned a report on the national energy affordability task force. The first phase of that work came through prior to the budget last year. That is ongoing work to try, in so far as the Government can, to intervene to get that pass through on prices and to ensure that electricity is affordable to our citizens. We recognise where we are at in the international table. With the departmental officials working with the CRU, it is very much our desire to get to a point where we can get parity in that situation.

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Sitting date: 2026-04-16