Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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182. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the progress made towards transposing the provisions of the revised Energy Efficiency Directive by the 11 October 2025 deadline. [54920/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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The Recast Energy Efficiency Directive (EU 2023/1791) (EED) is a wide-ranging European Directive which seeks to enhance energy efficiency across all EU Member States and forms a key part of the EU’s Fit for 55 Package. The Recast EED replaces the 2012 EED, as amended in 2018, which Ireland has previously fully transposed and implemented.

The new EED was finalised in October 2023, with a transposition deadline of 11 October 2025, and contains many new measures aimed at further enhancing energy efficiency across society. The Government has a very ambitious programme in place to enhance energy efficiency across all sectors of society, as a key part of the drive to decarbonise and achieve our climate targets. The Government is fully committed to implementing the EED and recognises the significant benefits arising from embracing energy efficiency for Irish society, including reduced costs to households, businesses and the Exchequer; increased competitiveness and job creation; reduced fossils fuel use and reduced carbon emissions; a reduction in energy poverty; improved health outcomes; and increased energy security.

The Government has invested heavily in promoting energy efficiency across all sectors, including through residential energy efficiency grants provided by SEAI investment in transport measures that promote energy efficiency through greater use of public transport, active travel and electric vehicles, and further measures in the industrial and commercial sectors. Significant progress has been made in enhancing energy efficiency to date.

The EED contains highly complex and technical requirements which have required careful consideration prior to their adoption into Irish law. In advance of the deadline for transposition of the EED, my Department has notified the European Commission that the transposition and implementation of a small number of articles within the EED has already been completed. In relation to the remaining articles that require transposition, a large volume of legislation is in the final stages of preparation and is expected to be ready in the near future. My Department is working to ensure the implementation of the remaining provisions as soon as possible.