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No. 93 of 2022

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022

Public bill · Government · Presented

Provides a second round of electricity credits for homes, because energy prices stayed unusually high after the earlier support scheme ran out. Eligible domestic electricity accounts would receive three payments over late 2022 and early 2023, with the government, ESB Networks, electricity suppliers, and the regulator handling delivery and oversight. It also makes these payments tax-free, allows the Minister to set the practical rules for the scheme, updates electricity market registration rules, and temporarily cuts the oil reserve levy to help ease costs.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to make provision, due to the continued exceptional rise in global energy prices since the completion of payments under the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme, for the establishment of a further scheme to be known as the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme II for the purpose of making further electricity costs emergency benefit payments during the period commencing on the date of the passing of this Act and ending on 30 June 2023 in respect of domestic electricity accounts in accordance with this Act out of resources available to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications; for that purpose to confer functions on the distribution system operator and electricity suppliers; to confer functions on the Commission for Regulation of Utilities in relation to the Scheme and for that purpose to amend the Electricity Regulation Act 1999; to provide that these further electricity costs emergency benefit payments are exempt from income tax and for that purpose to amend the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997; to enable the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to make regulations in relation to the operation of the Scheme; to make certain other amendments to the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 relating to registration under Part IIIA of that Act to give further effect to Directive (EU) 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on common rules for the internal market for electricity; to amend the rate of the levy under section 37 of the National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007 for a certain period; and to provide for related matters.

Last updated 11 September 2024

Sponsor
  • Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications Primary
Progress
  • First Stage
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  • Second Stage
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  • Committee Stage
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  • Report Stage
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  • Fifth Stage
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  • Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Committee Stage
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  • Report Stage
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  • Fifth Stage
    Seanad Enacted
  • Enacted
    Enacted
Debates
  • Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage
    Seanad
  • Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages
    Seanad
  • Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages
    Dáil
  • Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage
    Dáil
  • Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed)
    Dáil

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