Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland

Photo of Lynn BoylanLynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. The other question goes back to the attic insulation again. It is that same spending report. I think in 2011, €78.1 million was spent on energy efficiency and in 2015 it was €43 million, which is a 45% decrease based on my back-of-the-envelope figures. Mr. O'Mahony mentioned policy changes ten years ago. Was that a policy change to reduce the amount of expenditure on energy efficiency or was it that it was an underspend? In other words that 45% reduction spent by the SEAI on energy efficiency was because of the behavioural changes and people not opting for those schemes. Am I making sense?

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