Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

The SEI's funding has doubled. When this can be done at a time when budgetary circumstances are tight it shows the importance the Government attaches to this area.

I intend to evolve the greener homes scheme in terms of introducing new technologies and, as we did this year, reducing grants where appropriate such as when schemes achieve their ambitions, including establishing a volume of business in new technology areas so economies of scale apply. It is not our job to continue forever and a day to grant aid particular technologies. It is our job to establish those market areas and move on to other areas which need to evolve.

As we move to implementing the much higher building standards we were able to introduce in Government——

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