Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland

Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

Yes, we have as we have many things. For fear of reiterating a point, we started in February and the job is like getting an aeroplane to take off, where we look at the various grant measures and the way in which we can bundle, package or incentivise those. We are relatively clear in that while we work very closely with our parent Department, we are all of the shared view that we are not going to have one scheme right out until 2030, but we will be targeting, just as Ms McCarthy has indicated earlier on, certain things in certain areas. Somebody, through our information and advice, who has a larger, detached, rural home which is run on oil could benefit. One starts then to pick the incentives apart. Effectively, we have to get towards market segmentation. We are talking about homeowners, which is not a homogenous group of people. We then start segmenting different schemes and incentives for different outcomes and groupings.