Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 10 March 2021
151. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the details of the forthcoming SEAI deep retrofit grant schemes for private individual homeowners; and when he expects to be in a position to launch such a scheme. [12507/21]
View answerA total of €221.5 million in capital funding has been provided for SEAI residential and community retrofit schemes this year. This represents an additional €100 million, or an 82% increase, on the 2020 allocation and is the largest ever budget for the schemes.
This funding has already enabled a call for projects under a new National Retrofit One-Stop-Shop Development Scheme and the Community Energy Grant scheme. Both of these schemes provide grant support for private individual homeowners to deep retrofit their homes. It has also allowed the budget for the Better Energy Homes Scheme and Warmer Homes Scheme to be increased and funded a heat pump ready homes campaign.
My Department is currently working with SEAI to develop a further scheme that will facilitate the retrofitting of homes to a Building Energy Rating of B2, at scale and managed by one stop shops. It is intended to launch the scheme in quarter 3 of this year.
