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

Photo of Alan KellyAlan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I have four more questions. There is a €170 million underspend on the residential community retrofit programmes and a significant underspend on the energy efficiency national fund. Why is there a €170 million underspend on the residential community retrofit programmes? It seems that the funding that would have been lost under the energy efficiency national fund has been transferred and kept by the Department two years in a row. I have not seen this before. Can we ask the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform for a commentary on this?

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