Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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229. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding that has been allocated to programmes (details supplied) in 2018. [45398/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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In this year's Budget I have secured €107m in capital funding for energy efficiency schemes in 2018, a 34% increase. This capital increase is complemented by an increased current expenditure allocation that will allow the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) to support the expansion of our highly successful energy efficiency schemes bringing the total allocation for energy efficiency schemes to €117m. Of this €107m in capital funding, at this point I expect to allocate approximately €84m to domestic energy efficiency programmes, €9m to energy efficiency projects in the public sector and the remaining €14m to energy efficiency schemes aimed at farms, small businesses and commercial enterprises. A further breakdown of these figures is not available pending announcements on the operation of individual SEAI schemes in 2018. These figures will be confirmed in the Revised Estimates for Public Services, which I understand will be published by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in December.