David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I accept the Minister's bona fides. However, I am taking information from replies to previous parliamentary questions I tabled. Half of those applications were on the wrong forms. They are very similar but not they are not the same. There is serious information missing from one to the other. I am really worried about this.

Does the Minister agree that farmers are at a legal disadvantage because of the Department's lack of oversight in respect of this matter? There is no way of figuring out whether the person doing the work is competent and trained if they are not on the Safe Electric Ireland list. There is a big gap in this regard. How many companies were involved in this? Will the Minister give me this information at a later stage? How many companies actually were involved in filling out the SEAI form, the wrong one, versus the S198 form from his Department? They are effectively the same form but they are not the same form. This is very serious. The SEAI confirmed to me at a joint committee meeting that it has no formal relationship with the Department or the TAMS scheme. It is not involved here. The SEAI has best practice because it has two separate lists, one of installers and one of companies. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has one list that is actually an amalgamation of both.

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