Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual Exchequer funding provided to incentivise tradespeople to register for the one stop shop retrofitting programme; and the allocation for 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [40953/24]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The National Retrofit Plan sets out the Government's approach to achieving the Climate Action Plan targets of upgrading the equivalent of 500,000 homes to a Building Energy Rating (BER) of B2/cost optimal level and installing 400,000 heat pumps to replace older, less efficient heating systems by 2030.

In February 2022, Government announced an enhanced package of measures to support the uptake of home energy upgrades. This included the introduction of a new National Home Energy Upgrade Scheme and the establishment of a network of privately owned companies to register as a One Stop Shop (OSS) to offer a start-to-finish project management service for home energy upgrades.

A capital allocation of €45 million has been provided for the National Home Energy Upgrade Scheme this year to support domestic retrofit projects for homeowners who apply through OSSs. There is no annual Exchequer funding provided to incentivise tradespeople to register as a One Stop Shop. However, organisations are incentivised to register due to the business opportunities that arise from operating under the Scheme.

There are currently 20 OSSs registered with SEAI. The SEAI is continuing to actively engage with the construction sector, with the aim of getting more companies registered as a OSS.