Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)
2:00 am
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
That scheme was launched just over 12 months ago. There are 355 loans under the scheme. That is the most up-to-date figure I have. We have expanded that to other lenders as well. We announced that in May or June of this year. Some 355 loans were drawn down over the period to the end of quarter 1 of 2025, to the value of €17.2 million. We have expanded the home energy upgrade loan scheme. We have included An Post, Avant and all of the main street banks too. That was in April of this year. It is good to see. More work needs to be done with regard to advising people of the fact that these loans are available for people and also the key rates that these loans have. For energy retrofit, they are below normal lending rates and supplement the significant grants we give.
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