Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions
Dail Éireann — 2022-02-10
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Leo Varadkar (FG), Dublin West

We have to treat the symptoms of that by helping people with their family budgets.
I do not believe the ESB should make bumper profits this year and we have a mechanism for dealing with that. The ESB is a State-owned company. It pays us a substantial dividend every year. We can take a larger dividend. It is not the case that it can just run up huge profits and put them in a bank account somewhere. We are the shareholder. We take a substantial dividend from the ESB. If it runs up huge profits this year, we can take a bigger dividend and use that to help pay for some of the measures we are announcing today.

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Sitting date: 2022-02-10