Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 October 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites

9:30 am

Mr. Robert Deegan:

There is the national retrofit one-stop-shop development scheme which was in place this year. That was very much focused on the delivery of B2 retrofits, which is the overarching objective, as set out in the climate action plan, as well as the installation of heat pumps. There is a forthcoming new national retrofit scheme that will also aim at achieving those objectives but will streamline the process. At the same time as that scheme is launched, we will be bringing in measures that will clarify which are the right grant schemes for the different needs of different parties so that it will be far clearer that this is a household-----