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Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: What kind of review is carried out by the SEAI on its contractors so it does not appear that they are gouging?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: This is not anecdotal. This is fact. This was on the record of the Dáil yesterday. This was presented to the Minister on the floor of the Dáil.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: We better not discuss individual cases. I assume that the question is on the Dáil record and will go back to the Department for an answer. A percentage of 53% needs an answer. I am very concerned that the SEAI budget has been increased by €371 million but that does not appear to serve anybody if this is what is going on.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: Whether it is €10 or €100,000, it is 53% of an increase in three months. That is fairly understandable and unacceptable. Does Dr. Byrne agree?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: That is all. I did not give Dr. Byrne figures. I asked for his assessment of that type of an increase in three months, on an assessment that was carried out at SEAI's behest and under its instruction and paid for upfront yet it turned out that the grant was not a viable proposition after. The SEAI sent in its own contractors who gave him a 53% increase in cost, on the original assessment....

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: I suggest that the SEAI conducts a review on what is submitted in terms of required assessments and what they turn out to be, and how many go ahead.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: I have faith in what I am reading and from where it comes from. If the cost amount is gouging then that fact needs to be asserted.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: I need to understand the process but I will ask my question and request that we get an answer in writing.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: I have constituents who have single-glazed wooden windows and went through the whole process of applying for the grant. The homeowners are aged 61 and 65. However, because they insulated their home three years previous they are precluded from accessing the grant. They were told they were precluded at the end stage after two assessors had spent two hours at their home carrying out an...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: I will have to say now. I have a few of them that I looked up myself.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: I have sent this particular one in as a query.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: For the committee's benefit, it is the SEAI grant. I have got more information and sent it to the SEAI.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: Please answer.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: That is one question, Chair. Dr. Byrne has said that an assessor goes in to assess what is required but that does not make sense.

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: Surely Dr. Byrne is not of the opinion that today single-glazed timber windows are okay?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: When did the SEAI move into its new office?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: Given where we are today and what the SEAI does, have our guests considered the current energy costs that emanate from the new building?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: Will Ms O'Brien elaborate a little on what they were?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: What does that equate to in money?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Discussion (9 Mar 2023)

Verona Murphy: What measures has the authority taken to see that amount reduced?