Commitment
State-fund electricity grid expansion to cut bills
What this means
- Fianna Fáil made this promise in its November 2024 general election manifesto, so it is a party commitment and not yet law or policy.[source]
- The plan is to switch the national electricity grid to direct State funding instead of the current funding model, which adds costs to household and business bills.[source]
- The Renewable Electricity Support Scheme would also move to direct State funding under this commitment, reducing charges passed on to electricity customers.[source]
- The goal is to bring Irish electricity prices closer to the European average, which matters because Ireland currently has some of the highest electricity costs in the EU.[source]
- No delivery date was set for this commitment, making it harder for the public to hold the party to account on timing.[source]
Direct impact (1)
- owned by partyFianna FáilParty
Indirect impact (10)
Two-hop relationships traced through the entity above. Useful for spotting downstream knock-on effects.
- owned by party → party member2-hop via fianna-failAindrias MoynihanOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via fianna-failAisling DempseyOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via fianna-failAlbert DolanOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via fianna-failBrendan SmithOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via fianna-failCathal CroweOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via fianna-failCatherine ArdaghOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via fianna-failCharlie McConalogueOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via fianna-failChristopher O'SullivanOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via fianna-failCormac DevlinOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via fianna-failDara CallearyOfficeholder
Summary derived from the records cited above. Read the methodology to understand how this is generated.
Relationship map
One-hop relationships derived from the entity records. Click any node to follow the link.
Status
Fianna Fáil committed to switching to direct State funding of the national electricity grid and Renewable Electricity Support Scheme to bring Ireland's electricity costs closer to the European average.
Attribution & links
- Origin
- Manifesto
- Policy area
- Energy
- Owning party
- Fianna Fáil
- Responsible body
- —
- Responsible officeholder
- —
- Linked mandate
- —
- First stated
- 2024-11-17
- Last reviewed
- 2026-05-21
Evidence & sources
Every status claim above is backed by a primary source — follow a link to the source-of-truth document.
Evidence
- Fianna Fáil General Election Manifesto 2024 - Moving Forward. Together.Fianna Fáil·Retrieved 2026-05-21high
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