Calls for price caps as ESB profits reach €390 million

Sinn Fein TD Louise O’Reilly is calling on the Government to ensure the price of energy bills is capped for the Winter.

That’s after the news that the ESB’s after tax profit trebled for the first half of the year, to €390 million.

The Taoiseach says the government will take a large amount of the ESB’s profits to redistribute to the general public to help them pay their bills – but Deputy O’Reilly says they must do more to help people now…

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