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. Declan Meally:

Every Government Department is part of that. I am referring to 350 organisations, including Government Departments. The public sector met its 2020 efficiency target of 33%. We now have a public sector working group on building retrofit. Under the pathfinders programme, in 2021 we spent €15 million through the SEAI and that was matched by each Government Department, giving a total of €30 million, and €36 million was spent in 2022, matched by the Government, giving roughly €70 million. This year we are at over €120 million, with more than €60 million coming from the SEAI. Progress is active. The HSE has set out its decarbonisation and retrofit plan, as has the Department of Education. We are currently working with the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. Each Government Department is working with us. As the Secretary General has said, there is a challenge in terms of capacity but we have a plan and each organisation has its own climate action roadmap set out.

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