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

Mr. Barry Quinlan:

Absolutely, and it is a huge target for us. We have a built environment task force that I chair. The Minister is on that task force and Mr. Meally, who is here today, chairs the public sector element of that. We have done a lot of the measurement and identified the big hitters in terms of where we would get the best reductions across the HSE, education, higher education and local authorities, which covers a lot of the building stock. We have done an overall assessment of costs around the potential and we are talking about a multibillion euro investment for the overall retrofit of buildings. A lot of that work is done and now we are into pathways forward across the various sectors. All of those key sectors are on the task force and a plan is being put in place.

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