Róisín Shortall
Question:123. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of households that pay for utilities using pay-as-you-go credit or pre-pay meters. [45175/22]
View answerWednesday, 14 September 2022
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Responsibility for the regulation of retail electricity and gas markets was assigned to the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (CRU) under the 1999 Electricity Regulation Act and subsequent legislation. As part of its statutory role it is a function of CRU to regulate the market including consumer protection.
The CRU advise that currently there are approximately 260,000 residential electricity Pay-As-You-Go customers out of a total market of 2.165 million residential electricity customers, and approximately 118,000 residential Pay-As-You-Go gas customers out of a total market of 692,000 residential gas customers.
Furthermore, the CRU has a dedicated email address for Oireachtas members oireachtas@cru.ie.
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