Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 November 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment

9:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

The Deputy will see partial underspends in some areas relating to climate research and so on, but what we have seen in the area of energy efficiency, for example, is an almost doubling of the level of investment between 2016 and next year. There has been a considerable increase in the number of homes that have been the subject of energy retrofit work that has been completed. As stated earlier, 350,000 properties have been retrofitted by the State. We are doing a lot of work in the Department on the renewable energy front as well. We are seeing good progress being made there. We had a very ambitious target of 40% of electricity from renewable energy by 2020; we are now up to over 27%. I will talk about a number of things the Department is doing that are very relevant to the climate agenda but then I want to say something about other Departments because-----

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