Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 11 July 2023
391. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how much funding from the state's EU National Recovery and Resilience Plan has been earmarked and drawn down to date for the retrofitting of social housing. [33855/23]
View answerIreland’s National Recovery and Resilience Programme (NRRP) is funded by the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). It is based on sixteen investment projects and nine reform measures with their 109 associated milestones and targets covering the green, digital and social and economic priorities. The RRF is a performance based instrument with the Irish RRF allocation of €915m contingent on achieving milestones and targets. The nine reform measures underpinning the plan contribute to addressing a significant subset of the 2019 and 2020 Country-Specific Recommendations (CSRs).
There is no funding associated with retrofitting of social housing under the NRRP. However, my department funds the rerofitting of social housing through the Energy Efficiency and Retrofit Programme (EERP). The 2023 Energy Efficiency Retrofit budget for local authority homes, grant funded by my Department, provides an increase in Exchequer funding support to €87 million which will allow approximately 2,400 local authority owned social homes to be upgraded to a B2 or cost optimal equivalent (BER). Local authorities have been notified of their targets and funding available but it will be later this year before significant claims have been received.
