Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 March 2022
Public Accounts Committee
Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020
9:30 am
Dr. Ciaran Byrne:
That is a good question and the short answer is that I accept that. I want to clarify that of those 33 contractors, many are doing work directly themselves and many also utilise a range of subcontractors on the scheme. Part of the Government announcement on 8 February was to increase the volume of output of the scheme so we need more people participating in the scheme, which I accept. We are putting measures in place to try to get greater output from the contractors and to try to attract more people in the industry into the scheme.