Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024
Public bill · Government · Presented
Keeps emergency help with electricity bills going by setting up two new support schemes: one for ordinary domestic electricity accounts and one for homes with a submeter setup. Most eligible households would get two €125 credits, and the payments would run through to 31 August 2025. It also makes sure the payments are not taxed, gives the energy regulator and suppliers the legal powers they need to run the schemes, and allows the Minister to make the practical rules needed to deliver them.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to provide, due to the continued high cost of global energy prices since the completion of payments under the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme III and the Submeter Support Scheme, for the establishment of further schemes in accordance with this Act out of resources available to the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, to be known as the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme IV 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 31 August 2025 and to be known as the Submeter Support Scheme II for the purpose of making submeter support scheme payments during the period commencing on the date of the passing of this Act and ending on 31 August 2025; for the purpose of the Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme IV to confer functions on the distribution system operator and electricity suppliers; for the purpose of the Submeter Support Scheme II to confer functions on electricity suppliers; to confer functions on the Commission for Regulation of Utilities in relation to each of the Schemes and for that purpose to amend the Electricity Regulation Act 1999; to provide that the electricity costs emergency benefit payments and the submeter support scheme 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 Schemes; and to provide for related matters.
Last updated 17 October 2024
- Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications Primary
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- Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage Seanad
- Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages Seanad
- Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage Dáil
- Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages Dáil