Seán Canney (Galway East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The other thing I want to say is that communities and small businesses are also being supported through schemes led by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland like the sustainable energy communities scheme and the better energy community scheme. They are for smaller communities like the communities Deputy Moynihan is talking about and the communities I know as well. Communities can apply for these schemes and they operate in rural areas. It is important that communities apply and know these schemes are running for them to apply to through the SEAI.

I agree with Deputy Deering's comment that we have much work to do in co-ordinating the entire effort so that we squeeze down the time it takes to get all the processes right. That will help to get all these people connected to the grid, and we are working on that.

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