Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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221. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 13 February 2025 (details supplied) and following the NDP review, if the allocations remain the same for retrofitting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42761/25]

Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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222. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 13 February 2025 (details supplied) and following the NDP review, if the allocations remain the same for retrofitting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42762/25]

Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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226. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the annual uplift in the funding allocated to retrofitting under the national development plan in each of the years 2020 to 2030, in tabular form. [42766/25]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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310. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the funding allocation model for retrofit set out in table 1 of the National Retrofit Action Plan (page 10) will be funded through extra carbon tax revenue; if this is under review; when the review be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44260/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 221, 222, 226 and 310 together.

The Programme for Government affirms the Government’s commitment to making Ireland’s buildings more sustainable and energy-efficient, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, and lowering energy costs for households. By promoting retrofitting, renewable heating, and solar energy, we aim to make homes warmer, cheaper to heat, and less reliant on fossil fuels.

The National Retrofit Plan is delivering at scale and pace. Since 2019, over €1.4 billion of capital expenditure has supported over 213,000 homeowners make their dwellings warmer, healthier, more comfortable and less expensive to heat through the home energy upgrade grants under the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland's (SEAI) residential and community energy efficiency upgrade schemes.

This year, in 2025, a record capital budget of over €550 million has been allocated to the SEAI residential and community energy upgrade schemes, including the Solar PV Scheme. This allocation will support over 64,500 home energy upgrades to make homes warmer, healthier and more comfortable, with lower emissions and lower bills.

More broadly, my Department welcomes the substantial €5.64 billion allocation under the National Development Plan review, in addition to a landmark €3.5 billion investment in Ireland’s electricity grid infrastructure.

In line with the approach set out in the updated NDP, I will now undertake a process of setting my Department's capital investment priorities for the next five years and of allocating funding to the programmes that meet those priorities.