Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion
Mr. Andy Fox:
There are a couple of aspects to this. One of the things we have just put online is a grant programme for communities who are developing these RESS-scale projects. However, that grant programme basically gets them from concept up to pre-construction. It then moves into a different form. Once they go into the construction programme it goes out of our system, so they have to go and get financing for that. The works the Deputy is looking at are the next phase after our grant system. We are not covering that as part of our process. As far as what the local authority can do-----