Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 16 June 2016
21. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland has provided him with a comparison between the basic cost of energy in Ireland and in European Union states including, but not limited to, its bi-annual reports; if he will provide these; if the authority has not done so, if he will request it to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16174/16]
View answerElectricity and gas price statistics for Ireland and for both European Union (EU) and Eurozone Member States are publicly available. The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), as part of its functions, publishes biannual reports presenting electricity and gas price statistics from Ireland and all European Union Member States. These reports analyse electricity and natural gas price statistics and the data is based on a standard methodology for the EU Gas and Electricity Price Transparency Directive 90/377/EEC.
While the SEAI no longer publish the Electricity and Gas Price Reports in hard copy, they are available, along with a wealth of other energy statistics and reports at the SEAI website.
Comparative data on electricity and gas prices are available here: http://www.seai.ie/Publications/Statistics_Publications/Electricity_and_Gas_Prices/.
The Energy in Ireland 1990-2014 (2015) Report contains data on Irish energy statistics and is available here: http://www.seai.ie/Publications/Statistics_Publications/Energy_in_Ireland/Energy-in-Ireland-1990-2014.pdf.
The SEAI publications home page is accessible through the following link: http://www.seai.ie/Publications/Statistics_Publications/.
