Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan

9:30 am

Mr. Robert Deegan:

No, that was one particular scheme called the deep retrofit pilot scheme. The community energy grant scheme, which the Chairman mentioned, was quite low in the first four months of the year. That has gone up and we expect it to go up quite significantly towards the end of the year because of the way the application process and delivery process is. One applies at the start of the year and it delivers by the end of the calendar year. The one-stop shop scheme was launched in February so we are now starting to see the houses coming through at the other end of that. They are significant project projects that take a number of months to deliver.

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