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
Mr. Declan Meally:
No. The grants changed and the limit was introduced in 2021 so that is why the number would have gone up. We had five Jaguars in 2022. That was overall in terms of just under 11,000 of the cars. The numbers have decreased dramatically. The really high-end use relates to Volkswagen and Hyundai in terms of the cars that are there, so there has been a significant reduction in the vehicles referred to by An Cathaoirleach, such as BMWs and Jaguars. Because it produces the Mini, BMW is part of that. They are much smaller than the BMW i3. It is only in the 200s.