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:

That is what we are doing at the moment. We are putting the foundations in place. We have been in with the committee before, and one can see the trajectory from 2019 to 2022. We have seen, year on year, significant growth. Even between this year and last year, we have seen a significant increase from 27,000 retrofits to over 40,000 this year, and we are going to increase it again the year after.

What we are seeing on the ground is that people are buying into the retrofit, they are engaging with it in significant numbers, and all of our statistics are up significantly on last year.