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

Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

-----were inspected. The reworks are fully resolved because we are in full control of the contractors.

On the other scheme, it is between the homeowner and the contractor. We have an inspection system, however, and where we identify a problem on an inspection, we require the contractor to do the reworks, otherwise they achieve penalty points. If they get enough penalty points, they are deregistered from our system, so there is an incentive for the contractor to go back-----