Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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37. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of the budget allocations for each programme under the subhead B4 of the revised estimate in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [55772/25]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)
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The breakdown of the budget allocations for each programme under Subhead B04 - Residential/Community Retrofit Programmes (formerly Subhead C04 / B04 'Sustainable Energy Programmes') for each of the years 2020 to 2025 is set out in the document attached. For the period 2020 to 2022, this Subhead included business and public sector programmes which are now captured within Subhead B05 'Other Energy Efficiency Programmes'.

Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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38. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide a breakdown of total capital and current funding allocated to the solar PV scheme under subhead b4 of the revised estimate in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form; and to provide a breakdown of the allocation under this scheme dedicated to domestic and non-domestic solar PV, respectively [55774/25]

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 MSS assists both domestic and non-domestic applicants, in the form of grants for Solar PV installations, up to a maximum of €1,800 in 2025 for household installations. These grants are available through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI).

The SEAI maintains data regarding the financing and functioning of the Domestic Solar PV scheme and the previous pilot scheme it replaced in 2022, and has facilitated providing the information in response to the Question. Past allocations of capital and current funding to the SEAI in respect of the Domestic Solar PV scheme are set out in the attached table.

Due to the success of this scheme, and the resultant high grant uptake levels, the initial capital allocations in 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 were exceeded, requiring the provision of additional funds, with the total grant supports provided as set out in table 2 attached.

The Non-Domestic Microgeneration Scheme has not been funded from Subhead B4 but has been financed via multi annual funding streams, including via a transfer of funds from the Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme, as well as through the Energy Efficiency National Fund. Capital spend to date amounts to circa €15m.