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Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024
- Sponsor
- Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications
- Introduced
- 4 Oct 2024
- Last updated
- 17 Oct 2024
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Establishes Electricity Costs Emergency Benefit Scheme IV to pay domestic electricity account holders €125 twice (Nov/Dec 2024 and Jan/Feb 2025), funded up to €565.75 million.
- Creates Submeter Support Scheme II to credit active supplier submeter accounts with €125 in two specified payment periods, administered by electricity suppliers.
- Makes both emergency benefit and submeter support payments exempt from income tax; amends Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 accordingly.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage33rd Dáil4 Oct 2024
- Second Stage33rd Dáil9 Oct 2024
- Committee Stage33rd Dáil9 Oct 2024
- Report Stage33rd Dáil9 Oct 2024
- Fifth Stage33rd Dáil9 Oct 2024
- Second Stage26th Seanad10 Oct 2024
- Committee Stage26th Seanad10 Oct 2024
- Report Stage26th Seanad10 Oct 2024
- Fifth Stage26th Seanad10 Oct 2024
- Enacted12 Oct 2024
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