Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount that has been given to domestic wind turbine developers by the Government and the SEAI, where these manufacturers have since been liquidated; and the measures that will be taken to ensure there is no repeat of this in solar developments (details supplied). [13855/23]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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As Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, I have no function in relation to the provision of business enterprise supports to wind turbine developers or manufacturing companies.

There are a number of capital supports funded by my Department and administered by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), which are designed to support businesses to invest in the micro-generation of renewable electricity.

These include the Micro-Generation Support Scheme (MSS), which offers capital grants to businesses, up to a maximum of €2,400 for solar PV installations up to 6.0kW; under the non-domestic solar PV scheme.

Additionally, Solar PV is one of a range of measures supported under the Community Energy Grant scheme, which makes grant funding available to community partnerships to improve the energy efficiency of the building stock in their area and is open to domestic and non-domestic applications.

The Climate Action Plan also commits to the development of a new support scheme for small-scale generation (above 50kW). The consultation phase for this scheme has closed and it is currently in the final design stage, with an expectation that it will be launched later in 2023.