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:

I will make a note of that and cover the matter of the underspend. The Department has a number of schemes within the energy efficiency programme.

The members will be familiar with several of these, such as the grant scheme, better energy warmer homes, and the better energy community schemes. We provide capital grants to support energy efficiency upgrades proposed by communities. That could be a community hall, a number of homes or other buildings within the community. Second, the community scheme itself is grant funding that is provided to sustainable energy communities, to allow them gear up and put together with advice from the SEAI appropriate packages of measures that they can put forward. That is an area we have put in-----