Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 38: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has given consideration to retrospectively extending the grant for installing environmentally friendly heating systems in homes, particularly in view of the fact that many of those who installed systems were pioneers of the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17590/06]

Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)
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On 27 March I launched the "Greener Homes" grant aid package for the domestic sector which includes funding for wood chip and wood pellet boilers and stoves, solar and heat pump technologies. There has been a significant level of interest in the scheme with over 1,100 applications approved to date.

One of the key objectives of the grant scheme is to stimulate the market for domestic renewable technologies and to encourage people to purchase and install renewable technologies, who might not otherwise have done so, because of associated capital costs. All grant schemes must have a reference date and start point. In the case of the Greener Homes scheme, the appropriate date is the date of launch of the scheme.