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. Mark Griffin:

We made changes to the warmer homes scheme at the start of this year. We increased the eligibility of the scheme. As a consequence, there has been a significant ramp up of applicants to the scheme, which is a good thing to see. We want to support those who need support from the State to heat their homes. At that time, there was a waiting list of approximately 7,000 applicants and the waiting time was approximately 24 months. We have seen that halved for that group to ten or 12 months, so we are making progress on that. In fact, we want to-----