Hoteliers outraged at further electricity price rises

The Irish Hotels Federation has rejected as outrageous the decision by the Commission on Energy Regulation (CER) to impose an additional levy on electricity customers from October 1.

The IHF is demanding that "the Government show leadership and intervene to overturn the decision", which they say could result in "additional costs of up to €7,000 per annum being imposed on individual hotels" – many of which are already in survival mode.