{"id":446560,"date":"2026-05-13T10:49:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446560\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T10:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T10:49:17","slug":"answers-sought-on-energy-price-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/446560\/","title":{"rendered":"Answers sought on energy price rises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Officials from the energy regulator will face questions on high electricity prices at the Oireachtas Energy committee today.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission for Regulation of Utilities will discuss its recent report which found no evidence of price gouging in the energy market.<\/p>\n<p>Irish electricity prices are the highest in the EU according to figures from Eurostat.<\/p>\n<p>Committee chairperson Naoise O\u2019Muiri says they want answers on why those prices have increased sharply\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NEWSTALK202605130008.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NEWSTALK202605130008.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials from the energy regulator will face questions on high electricity prices at the Oireachtas Energy committee today.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-446560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}