Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 November 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes
9:30 am
Ms Oonagh Buckley:
We prefer to try to make sure everybody achieves their targets here. If we have to achieve compliance through other routes - there is a European sharing arrangement we could avail of - the costs would be very high. It is hard to calculate them at the moment because it would be dependent on what would be charged for emissions sharing at that point in time. Certainly, we would be much better off spending that money here at home doing things such as retrofits than doing that.