Joe Cooney (Clare, Fine Gael)
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187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding allocated under the solar PV scheme, by county, to date in 2025; the number of successful applicants in each county, in tabular form; if changes are being considered to the maximum grant of €1,800; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46972/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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The Microgeneration Support Scheme (MSS) was approved by Government on 21 December 2021, to support Ireland’s ambitious targets for micro-generation installations, under the Climate Action Plan. The Domestic SPV provides supports to applicants, in the form of grants for Solar PV installations, up to a maximum of €1,800 in 2025 for household installations. In line with the approved final scheme design the maximum grant was set at €2,400 for 2022 and 2023, with a reduction of €300 for each subsequent year until 2028. This resulted in the maximum grant being set to €1,800 in 2025, and this will decrease again to €1,500 from 1 January 2026. Grant applications made and approved by 31 December 2025 will be eligible to receive the current maximum grant. Once approval is secured, applicants have eight months to complete works and submit the necessary documents to SEAI in order to receive grant payment. After this period, the approval will expire, and re-application will be required.

These grants are available through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI). Funding is allocated to the scheme as a whole not by geographical area, allocated funding for 2025 is €69m. Please see below a table provided by the SEAI outlining on a county basis installations to end of August 2025.