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:

On the RHI, I guess we approached that with a significant degree of caution having regard to what happened in Northern Ireland. We need to learn lessons in respect of how we roll out an RHI programme to make sure that the sort of cost overruns that have occurred and the potential very significant cost overruns that are likely to occur in the future will not happen in our scheme. Part of the consultancy was to look at the controls that need to be put in place to protect the State and its investment, at both scheme and project levels, and to make sure that for any windfall gain, for example, through a reduction in the price of biomass, there would be some clawback mechanism.

In respect of the others-----