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- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: How many houses were retrofitted under the scheme last year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: We can see a bit of a problem there, can we not?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: In 2021, we were completing fewer retrofits than were applied for, and that is even though there was a very low number.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: That is not my understanding of the Covid restrictions. The Covid restrictions permitted construction activity.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: I understood it to mean that this scheme would have been eligible. Is Dr. Byrne suggesting that no warmer homes scheme work was done during those 18 months?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: How could some be done?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: Dr. Byrne gave a couple of different answers there. Does he accept that it was not the Covid restrictions that prevented work from taking place?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: This is important because it has been set down as a key objective for Dr. Byrne's organisation. We have a large backlog and we have not been meeting the demand, and Dr. Byrne's rationale for that is Covid.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: How big of an element is it, as a percentage?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: Okay. Dr. Byrne is right that applications trebled and output doubled, but in both instances there were more applications than completions. I am trying to ascertain whether the difficulty was that the contractors were not doing enough, that we did not have enough of them or that it was Covid. Dr. Byrne front-loaded Covid as his explanation when I first asked the question. I want to get a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: We were talking about vulnerable-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: Is there no capacity to add contractors?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: Will this tender allow new applicants to come in over the scheme's lifetime?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: It sounds to me like the same mistakes are going to be repeated.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: I know that, but Dr. Byrne cited Covid as the reason. I am asking in what way Covid played a part. Was it that individuals were contacting the SEAI and saying they did not want the work carried out? Was it that contractors were refusing to carry out the work? Was it a direction by the SEAI that the work not be carried out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: How many cases like that were there? Let us just deal with the specifics. How many deferred?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: Mr. Halpin is saying that for 12 to 14 months this scheme was suspended.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: For 12 to 14 months, work was not being done under this scheme.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: That is even though Government restrictions at the time permitted this work to continue.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)
Matt Carthy: For 12 to 14 months.