Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 591: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress made in regard to the commitment given in the Programme for Government to introduce a national attic and wall insulation grant scheme to the value of €100 million. [19386/08]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)
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I launched a pilot Home Energy Saving Scheme on 24 April this year. The pilot scheme, for which funding of €5 million is provided in 2008, is designed to encourage owners of older homes to improve the energy efficiency of their homes, primarily through insulation measures. Informed by the emerging outcomes of the pilot scheme I will be discussing the funding of a national roll-out of the scheme from 2009 with the Minister for Finance in the Estimates context.