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Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Okay. I will return to retrofitting for a moment, and the warmer homes scheme and value for money. You outlined that 50% for the warmer homes scheme comes from the EU. This is the scheme for people who are on the fuel allowance. That has been expanded a little, which is welcome. There are many homes in the State that still have single glazing. In general, they are the poorest...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Under the previous scheme, and there was a leaflet on it, it was not listed on that. However, you are saying that if the surveyor says it must be done, it is done.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: That is welcome. The issue is to try to get every house double glazed. Obviously, it is a good place to start. I have another question and it relates to mass concrete housing. Your Department does not do the local authority retrofit scheme. A typical mass concrete house has 9 in. walls. There were tens of thousands of them built in the 1930s and 1940s. If they are privately owned the...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: We are dealing with houses that are not slabbed at the back or they have no wraparound outside and they have no cavity in the middle. They are being left until last because they are hard to do and more expensive.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: My point is that there is an urgent need here. It is more urgent now because solid fuel prices are rising. These households really have their backs to the wall. One can ask anybody in the Society of St. Vincent de Paul around the country. They have their backs to the wall because they have high energy usage. The heat is flying out through the walls and the windows and they need to be...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: The approved housing bodies are all fairly new though.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: The only other point to make on it is that it is peppered at the moment. The majority could be private on some of those estates and on others the majority are still local authority-owned. Therefore, there needs to be some joined-up thinking in terms of where person in No. 30 is a local authority owned home and person in No. 31 is not. It is a mix and match. There needs to be a lot of...

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Many of them are pensioners.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: That is good. I just wish that to be fed back and taken into consideration. I thank the witnesses. Does Deputy Murphy have a question?

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: While Deputy Murphy had to pop out to deal with something else, we asked that they come back with a table of local authorities that have applied for that grant and utilised it.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: We should just perhaps ask them to come back with a note on that to the committee, because obviously they are in transition at the moment.

Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: I thank the witnesses from SEAI and the two principal officers from the Department for attending and preparing the information. I also thank the Comptroller and Auditor General and his staff for attending and assisting the committee today and, indeed, the secretariat as well. Is it agreed to request the clerk to the committee to seek any follow-up information and carry out any agreed...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: The business before us is as follows: minutes of previous meetings, accounts and financial statements, correspondence, work programme and any other business. We will then go into private session before adjourning. The minutes of the meeting of 10 March have been circulated to members. Are the minutes agreed? Agreed. As usual, they will be published on the committee's web page. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will let the Comptroller and Auditor General continue for now.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Thank you. I also wish to bring it to members' attention that representatives of UL have confirmed attendance for 12 May, as can be seen in the work programme. They will be here seven or eight weeks hence. I do not intend to have a full discussion of any of those issues now, but do any members have a question for the Comptroller and Auditor General?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: There are two questions there.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Can we agree to note the accounts and statements? Agreed. As usual, the listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. We will move on now to correspondence. As previously agreed, items that are not flagged for discussion for this meeting will continue to be dealt with in accordance with the proposed actions that have been circulated, and decisions...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: Mr. McCarthy can come in on that question on holiday pay.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will ask for information on the Clontibret project. On the Portlaoise-Cullahill M7-M8 scheme, we received detailed figures from the TII in regard to the costs to the agency to date and the projected costs by the end of the contract. TII has paid €83 million to the company to date, and €173 million has been collected in tolls. The figure we do not have is what the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Mar 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will ask the clerk to follow up on that piece of information. It is proposed to note and publish that correspondence. Is that agreed? Agreed.