Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan
9:30 am
Mr. Robert Deegan:
Again, when we look back that far, all of those schemes were focused on shallow retrofits but there is now an increasing focus on deeper retrofits in parallel to the shallow measures that are still supported. In February of this year these were enhanced. One can start seeing the impact of those enhanced grant rates for cavity and attic insulation in the activity so far. On both of those measures we are up 300% on what we were doing last year in actual delivery. We are seeing that the interventions we have made around the supports that are now available to homeowners-----