Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 November 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes

9:30 am

Ms Oonagh Buckley:

We are at the very early stages, unfortunately. The other thing we would like to do is get public sector clients onto district heating schemes because they are good, solid, reliable clients who will pay for the heating. That would save an enormous amount of costs. For example, we are looking to push the Dublin district heating scheme, which will come up along the docklands and which could potentially heat this building, in a retrofitted state, for very little funding once we have got the initial project off the ground. The difficulty, as always with these things, is getting the funding in place and moving people forward together to get the-----

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