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:

It might be worth rewinding the tape a little. In 2017 and 2018, we had no waiting lists and were looking for applicants. What happened with Covid was that applications were coming all the way through. Broadly speaking, for the guts of one and a half to two years we were restricted from going into homes. The applications were mounting up while we were restricted during the Covid backlog. The early part of 2022 was very much related to the Covid backlog.