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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: What happened with the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, I believe, is well documented as to why it was built beside a motorway and not in the community where it was supposed to be, which would have made it accessible by foot to many members of the community. Staff in Liffey Valley Shopping Centre have suddenly been informed that they must now park in an overflow car park at a cost of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I want to raise the following and put it with all of the things energy-related this morning. My first query relates to what happened yesterday at a private meeting of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action as 15 minutes before we went into session we were informed by a letter from the relevant Minister requesting that we wave pre-legislative scrutiny of a Bill for emergency...

Seanad: Poverty and Social Exclusion: Motion (19 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I welcome the Minister of State. Tá áthas orm go bhfuil an deis a labhairt sa díospóireacht seo. I commend the Civil Engagement Group on bringing forward this issue and for their very strong words in favour of this motion in the moving of it. We know the annual survey on income and living standards is the official source of data on households and individual incomes and...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I move amendment No. 1: 1. In page 4, to delete lines 3 to 11, and substitute the following: “ “non-vacant, non-holiday home domestic electricity account” means an electricity account in respect of which a meter point registration number has been assigned and which— (a) is held by a final customer with an electricity supplier, (b) is identified...

Seanad: Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Yes. The Minister of State's response is deeply disappointing. Senator Higgins has made a very strong argument in favour of our amendments. On the one hand we are using low usage as a metric in the context of a low-usage charge but at the same time, it is not a good enough metric when it comes to trying to exclude people who have means and are clearly not in urgent need of this measure....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I want to put on record my condolences to the community of Creeslough. Everybody is heartsore looking at what happened over the weekend. I hope the community will be given all of the support they need in the years to come. They are in our thoughts. I will not get an opportunity to speak on the Private Members' motion on Iran tonight but I want to offer my support. It is very important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I want to pick up on a couple of issues previous speakers asked about. Deputy O'Rourke spoke about the attic insulation figures, and Deputies Bruton and Whitmore spoke about the idea of shallow retrofitting. Is it not true that attic insulation really fell off a cliff from 2011 to 2019? What was the rationale for that? Was it Government policy? Was it a change in the grants that were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I will ask one question before Mr. O'Mahony comes in. The SEAI noticed that this was happening and there was this drop-off in interest. Was anything being done at an SEAI level to ask whether we need to encourage people to continue to do this? If we had continued on the trajectory we were on in 2011, a significant number of emissions would have been saved had people continued to get their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: The other issue I wish to raise concerns the changes to the energy efficiency obligation scheme. There is a move to these more complex, deep measures rather than looking at the more shallow measures. The hub controller is one measure that was brought to my attention. My understanding is that this is smart technology that actively integrates with the boiler. Two different analyses on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I understand we want to get the deep retrofit but we are where we are, to use that awful phrase. People are really struggling to pay their bills. If there is a system that can reduce people's bills by 36% and it costs €300 or €400, and if we want to shift the energy efficiency obligation scheme away from that, are there short-term measures where we can ensure these households...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I can give a bit of information, just to help Mr. Byrne. I understand it was a trial carried out by or run in association with the SEAI. It was one of the largest field trials ever conducted. That is the organisation that sells this product telling us that. However, it said the trial showed energy savings of 34.7%. That organisation got another economic evaluation which showed even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I will come back to attic insulation spending, the hub controller and pick up on the point that the SEAI does not collect data in respect of tenants. I know that in the spending review of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in 2020 and the social impact assessment, the Department flagged the fact that we are not collecting those types of data so we do not know whether we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: If we are shifting a considerable amount of public money to a demand-led scheme, we have information on those who are eligible. We are giving away public money in the form of grants. Are we collecting any data about the demographic of those households or their expenditure on energy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: If we are giving public money to households surely we can ask them what the household income is and what their expenditure is on energy? We are giving them public money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Okay. The other question goes back to the attic insulation again. It is that same spending report. I think in 2011, €78.1 million was spent on energy efficiency and in 2015 it was €43 million, which is a 45% decrease based on my back-of-the-envelope figures. Mr. O'Mahony mentioned policy changes ten years ago. Was that a policy change to reduce the amount of expenditure on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: We do not have a breakdown of what the authority spent the energy efficiency funds on. If the officials do have that, how much of the expenditure between 2011 and 2019 was on attic insulation? There was a 45% decrease and I am asking if it was a decrease in the allocation given to the authority by the Department or a decrease due to an underspend because people had shifted and gone in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Lynn Boylan: I understand that.