Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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763. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount spent on schemes (details supplied) in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018, by county. [30490/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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The Better Energy Programme is funded by my Department and administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). The Programme consists of three main schemes: Homes, Warmer Homes and Communities.

Better Energy Homes provides a financial incentive to private homeowners who wish to improve the energy performance of their homes. Better Energy Warmer Homes delivers a range of energy efficiency measures free of charge to low income households who meet the defined eligibility criteria and who are vulnerable to energy poverty. Better Energy Communities supports energy efficiency upgrades to mixed projects of homes, community facilities and businesses in a local community; projects under this scheme can cross county boundaries and therefore a breakdown of costs per county is not available.

These schemes are supplemented by the Warmth and Wellbeing Scheme which was launched as a Pilot scheme under the Government’s Strategy to Combat Energy Poverty and the Healthy Ireland Framework. The aim of the scheme, a joint policy initiative between my Department and the Department of Health, which began in 2016, is to demonstrate the positive effects that making homes warmer and more energy efficient can have on the health and well-being of people in energy poverty who are living with a chronic respiratory condition. As a pilot scheme, it is currently available only in certain areas of CHO 7.

Table 1: Spend across the Better Energy Communities and Warmth and Well-being schemes 2014-2018YTD.

Table 2: County by County breakdown of spend for Better Energy Homes scheme 2014-2018YTD

Table 3: County by County breakdown of spend for Better Energy Warmer Homes scheme 2014-2018YTD