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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: That was a selling point. The orange area is the intervention area and the taxpayer or the State is putting up 90% of the cash. The point I am making is we find ourselves in a situation where another operator, which has a dominant position by virtue of the fact that it controls the highways - the main arteries out through the national broadband network - as one can see from the maps, has...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Eir not alone has substantial leverage and power in terms of the pace things move at, which Mr. Ó hÓbáin conceded earlier on to me, but, we now learn, also has a substantially stronger position in terms of being able to dip into the intervention areas where it suits it to do that. Tell me this: what power has the Department, God almighty or anybody else to stop it from doing that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: We will have to wait and see that. In ten years' time, we will know more. I call Deputy Catherine Murphy.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I wish to revert to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, grant schemes. I received a reply to a parliamentary question on 25 May from the Minister with regard to this. To be honest, I was a bit taken aback by the reply. It outlined the number of homes that were upgraded. These figures were for the first four months. I asked for the figures for 2022. The reply outlined to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Was the deep retrofit scheme closed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Was that captured in the new schemes that were announced?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: That was a pilot scheme.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: It was mainly in the south Dublin area.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I see some of the houses that were improved under that scheme in those areas when I am coming in in the mornings. On the shallow retrofits, I am looking at a table based on figures from 2010 up to the end of 2019, as supplied by the SEAI to my colleague, Deputy Darren O'Rourke. In 2011 there were 51,557 shallow retrofits done. The same corresponding figure decreases every year right the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is it up by 23% this year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: That is, however, from a very low base. It is a figure of 3,700 in one year on the cavity wall insulation, and only 4,700 for the attic insulation.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: There are some 500,000 of those shallow retrofits left to be done.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I wish to ask specifically about double glazing. There are an awful lot of homes with single glazing. I am not clear on it but I looked at the grants quickly again on Monday. With the single glazing there are a number of homes still generally falling in this regard, and it seems to be older people, people who are on lower incomes, or maybe older people who are working but just cannot...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: That is the only way of doing those. They were made available also under the "free", for want of a better word, scheme which is the warmer homes scheme. They were made available under that. Is that still the case? Could we advise constituents to apply for it under the warmer homes scheme if they still have single glazing? They do not have to have health problems or anything like that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Can people can apply with a paper form? A lot of the applications are online.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: He said we do not.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Over the last 12 years, it would appear that if we were doing it, we were not doing it very effectively because we finished up in a situation where demand has increased because population has increased. In addition, data centres, industry, employment increases, car charging and heat pumps in houses all place new demands on electricity. Mr. Griffin would have heard me talk about some of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: I am trying to figure out the short answer. A constituent raised this issue with me and it is also going around inside my head. Where are we going to get that from? That is what I want to know, in short. I know it is the burden of policy but it can be very difficult for us to get answers to these questions. We are given something like one minute on the floor of the Dáil. I am...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: Is the potential there to fulfil that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Stanley: What about biomass? I saw a figure in the briefing notes where it is projected that the availability of wood biomass will increase by 100% by 2030.