Environment, Climate and Communications | To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the extent to which the completion of new house builds in an area (details supplied) are being delayed due to the failure of ESB networks to undertake the necessary network connection works in a timely manner; the plans currently in hand to rectify the situation as quickly as possible

*  To ask the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the extent to which the completion of new house builds in an area (details supplied) are being delayed due to the failure of ESB networks to undertake the necessary network connection works in a timely manner; the plans currently in hand to rectify the situation as quickly as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. – Bernard J. Durkan.

Lucan/Adamstown Area

*    For WRITTEN answer on Wednesday, 25th May, 2022.

(720  Received on 19th May, 2022.)

REPLY

The management of connections to the electricity grid is a matter for EirGrid and ESB Networks under rules determined by the Commission for Regulation Utilities (CRU), which is an independent statutory body. This is an operational matter for the Management of ESB Networks and is therefore not a matter in which the Minister has a statutory function.