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:

They were tied into it. I cannot specifically say anything about a given home on a given day. They are absolutely tied into it. We are talking about a cohort of extremely vulnerable householders and going into the homes they live in.

It is completely different from building a brand-new house in a big open field where people are working. I do not have the dates to hand, but there was formal opening and closing and various restrictions in place in the construction sector over 2020 and 2021. All Covid restrictions came-----