Michelle Mulherin (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Regarding the budget for the warmer homes scheme and the warmth and wellbeing pilot scheme, how much money has been allocated and how much has been spent? I am asking on account of complaints I received, in both April and June, over delays being experienced by contractors in having the work they carried out audited. It was taking up to 13 weeks. They had to wait even longer for payment.

Where jobs had been allocated to contractors, I understand that it was communicated by the SEAI that a hold was to be put on the completion of these jobs. Contractors that had built up capacity to deliver the work at the request of the SEAI had to let people go and were put in a very tight cashflow situation while householders, who we are rightly encouraging to avail of these schemes, did not know where they stood.