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.