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- Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)
Brian Stanley: Six hundred euro.
- Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)
Brian Stanley: Will this include the take of the local authorities that have applied? It would be useful for us to know that? I thank our witnesses and call Deputy Colm Burke.
- Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)
Brian Stanley: I invite members to come in for a second round starting with Deputy Catherine Murphy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)
Brian Stanley: On energy supply, the Department might take the following question. In the discussion earlier, the SEAI's point of view was that there would not be a problem in relation to extra EVs, EV charging points or retrofitting and heat pumps. However, we are planning to install 600,000 heat pumps, according to the briefing, and there will be 945,000 electric cars and the charging points for those....
- Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)
Brian Stanley: Are both EirGrid and the ESB happy enough?
- Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)
Brian Stanley: With regard to the SEAI's role with renewables, the talk is about wind. We have a great resource and we are lucky. It is to be hoped that we can develop that, particularly the powerful offshore element of it and floating wind turbines. However, wind is not a dispatchable power. We do not always have it. At the times of the greatest energy needs on this island, and there were a number of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)
Brian Stanley: Is the Department flagging this to the Government?
- Public Accounts Committee: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland: Financial Statements 2020 (24 Mar 2022)
Brian Stanley: You and Ms O'Hora are flagging this.
- 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...