Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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597. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount that has been allocated to residential energy efficiency programmes for 2018, by programme. [54084/17]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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In Budget 2018, I secured €107m in capital funding for energy efficiency, an increase of over 40%. 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 the €107m in capital funding, at this point I expect to allocate approximately €84m to domestic energy efficiency programmes. A full breakdown of these figures is not yet available pending announcements on the operation of individual SEAI schemes in 2018. I have already announced that €28m worth of grants will be awarded under the Better Energy Communities scheme, and applications for this scheme are already open.

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 later this month.