Households to get €50 compensation for overcharging, according to ESB

A body of work is under way to identify a final figure owed, the committee was told.

Every household in the country is to be compensated to the tune of €50 after being overcharged for more than a decade.

The Government's policy of making consumers subsidise the energy costs of big business over that period is now coming under the spotlight and Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) chair Aoife MacEvilly told the Oireachtas committee on the environment that "absolutely that money will be paid back” to customers and a body of work is underway to identify a final figure owed.