Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for the breakdown of the funding provided for community energy grants in 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7065/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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The Communities Energy Grant Scheme is part of the Government's National Retrofit Programme. The primary objective of the scheme is to support and maximise the number of home energy upgrades delivered. Non-domestic projects are also supported to encourage broader community engagement and mobilisation.

Other objectives include:

• Building capacity by working with project co-ordinators on large-scale and complex projects
• Supporting cross-sectoral, partnership approaches targeting public, private, commercial and community buildings
• Helping develop the retrofit supply chain
• Building relationships with communities and businesses
• Developing community project management capacity

• 2024: €41.2m
• 2023: €27m
• 2022: €17.3m
• 2021: €21.8m
• 2020: €18.7m

• Support for projects focused solely on residential upgrades
• Improved supports to address the particular challenge of retrofitting Multi-Unit Developments such as flat complexes and apartments, including scaffolding and communal areas
• A pilot focused on area-based home retrofit projects which will encourage Communities Energy Grant Project Coordinators, Local Authorities and local energy agencies to collaborate with an objective of leaving no home behind.