Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 March 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion

9:30 am

Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

Yes. However, I want to give the Deputy some context. We referred earlier to the fact that number of applications for the scheme in 2021 was 2,931. The applications for 2022 were 9,000. Using round numbers, that is just shy of 3,000 in 2021 and 10,000 in 2022. That was also the year we reference as being marked by supply chain demands, the end of Covid, the inflation crisis and things like that. There was also a real restriction in respect of the number of contractors. Our relative output went from 2,400 up to just shy of 4,500. We nearly doubled the output.