Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

SME Energy and Carbon Demands, Green Initiatives and Technology: Discussion

Mr. Leo Clancy:

Since the start of 2022, given there were some prior offers available before the launch in July of last year, we have had 201 approvals under the decarbonisation scheme. We can break that out against the new offers as well. That funding totals €7 million committed so far to business and it is in the process of drawdown. The momentum is growing on this and some of the measures that we mentioned earlier around training, engagement and marketing are ramping up on an ongoing basis. We are pushing very hard on this and we have a strong pipeline of interest in this area.