Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 March 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Financial Statements of Enterprise Ireland: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Leo Clancy:

There is a range. It starts with our basic one, which is the climate action voucher. Almost exactly two years ago, we made a climate action voucher available to companies. It allowed for €1,800 for an initial assessment of a company's climate action performance. We also have a GreenStart programme. If a company has done the initial analysis and knows it wants to improve, we have a programme that helps it to go on that journey, reduce energy consumption, improve its insulation or energy posture, reduce its consumption for machines and that kind of thing. There is a progression of that called GreenPlus. We can also provide in certain terms environmental aid to companies to help them substantially decarbonise their facilities. Just last summer, we launched a set of energy supports under the European national recovery and resilience fund to intervene directly and help companies with capital investment in things such as energy monitoring infrastructure, carbon monitoring infrastructure and those kind of things. A substantial range of things is available.