Written answers
Thursday, 4 May 2023
Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Departmental Budgets
Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein)
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101. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the budget allocations for each programme under the subhead B4 of the Revised Estimates for 2022, the March Supplementary Estimates for 2022 and the post-March Supplementary Estimates for 2022, in tabular form. [20962/23]
Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The 2022 Revised Estimates Volume, published in December 2021, included an allocation of €263.578m for Subhead B.4 - Residential/Community Retrofit Programmes. The allocation was broken out as follows:
| Subhead B.04 - Residential/Community Retrofit Programmes | Current €000 | Capital €000 | Total €000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential Energy Poverty | 109,000 | 109,000 | |
| Residential Energy Efficiency | 129,868 | 129,868 | |
| Community/Micro-Gen | 16,000 | 16,000 | |
| Residential/Community Retrofit Programmes | 8,710 | - | 8,710 |
| Total | 8,710 | 254,868 | 263,578 |
In February 2022, the SEAI through its Business Planning process, advised my Department that it would require capital funding of €267.2m to deliver almost 27,000 home retrofits in 2022. This was based on demand for grant supports for retrofit works and took account of the significant constraints in the supply chain impacting the retrofit market and the ongoing impact of COVID-19, particularly during early 2022.
As part of the Supplementary Estimate in March 2022, €128.626m capital was reallocated from Subhead B.4 to Subhead B.11 - Electricity Credit. The remaining €126.242m capital allocation in Subhead B.4 was supplemented by capital carryover of €57.917m along with €83.041m from the Energy Efficiency National Fund. This brought the total capital allocation for Residential/Community Retrofit programmes to €267.2m, the full amount required by the SEAI to deliver on the retrofit target – see table below for revised breakdown by scheme:
| Residential/Community Retrofit Programmes | Current €000 | Capital €000 | Total €000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BE Warmer Homes | 109,000 | 109,000 | |
| BE Warmth & Well-being | 9,000 | 9,000 | |
| BE Homes | 38,000 | 38,000 | |
| Solar PV | 14,000 | 14,000 | |
| BE Communities (Community Energy Grant) | 43,000 | 43,000 | |
| Deep Retrofit | 2,200 | 2,200 | |
| Renewable Electricity Support Scheme - Communities | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
| Building Energy Rating (BER) Supports | 2,000 | 2,000 | |
| One Stop Shop Development Scheme | 40,000 | 40,000 | |
| Community Activation Fund | 8,000 | 8,000 | |
| Microgen | 1,000 | 1,000 | |
| Residential/Community Retrofit Programmes | 8,710 | - | 8,710 |
| Total Capital Funding | 8,710 | 267,200 | 275,910 |
The provisional out-turn for the Residential/Community programme in 2022 was €200.543m
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