Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 6 July 2023
174. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline in tabular form, by county the number of completed retrofits to date since the introduction of the grant schemes; the number of grants drawn down to date; the number of grants applied for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33353/23]
View answerIn February 2022, Government established the new National Home Energy Upgrade Scheme providing increased grant levels of the cost of a typical deep retrofit to a B2 BER standard and establishment of a network of registered One Stop Shops to offer a seamless and integrated service for homeowners with no visible hand-overs of customer communication or relationships within the home energy upgrade project.
Since its establishment, the National Home Energy Upgrade Scheme and the One Stop Shops have seen high levels of demand from homeowners.
The latest data from SEAI shows that there are now 16 One Stop Shops registered and SEAI continue to actively engage with the construction sector with the aim of attracting more companies to register as One-Stop-Shops.
A detailed overview of the SEAI 2022 performance against annual targets on the residential and community energy efficiency schemes can be found in their recently published quarterly reports, which can be found on the SEAI website at: www.seai.ie/news-and-media/home-energy-upgrades-2022/ and www.seai.ie/news-and-media/home-energy-upgrades-2023/ .
Data from these SEAI reports show that across 2022 & Quarter 1, 2023 the National Home Energy upgrade Scheme has:
• Received over 2,200 applications for Home Energy Assessments;
• Received over 1,600 applications for Home Energy Upgrade Works;
• Completed almost 900 property upgrades (this includes a number of upgrades completed in 2022 as part of the close out of the OSS Development Call 2021).
A county-by-county breakdown is not routinely reported by SEAI to the Department.
