Energy providers have a moral obligation to pass on the fall in wholesale electricity prices to hard pressed consumers.

That's the view of the leader of the Rural Independent Group of TD's.

New figures reveal wholesale electricity prices fell by 41% in the last three months of 2022, making them cheaper than they were before Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Independent Deputy Mattie Mc Grath says the failure to pass on immediate price drops is totally unacceptable...