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Debate: Joint Committee On Environment And Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_environment_and_climate_action/2022-05-24/2/
24 May 2022 -
Senator Lynn Boylan I have one more question on sustainable energy grants....Would the SEAI support stand-alone grants for community groups?...Community groups identify who is interested and who is in fuel poverty....In Scotland, for example, those groups get a grant to help them identify people....I mean apart from my query about the paperwork we could provide funding or a grant to those groups to
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Debate: Joint Committee On Social Protection, Community And Rural Development And The Islands
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_social_protection_community_and_rural_development_and_the_islands/2022-03-30/2/
30 Mar 2022 -
There are the toolkits I mentioned earlier, the trusted advisory service and the enabling grants....The SEAI will announce it and it is pretty ready to go....The SEAI will develop an online training programme for renewable energy community projects....We have established a RESS community steering board for the Department and the SEAI to engage with the...the planning system or, indeed, the grants and how the various trusted advisers and trusted intermediaries
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Debate: Joint Committee On Environment And Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_environment_and_climate_action/2022-05-24/2/
24 May 2022 -
The SEAI delivers a number of programmes and initiatives empowering communities and enabling local climate...action, including programmes such as the communities energy grant, CEG, sustainable energy communities...The level of grant support requested is €29.5 million....The do stage involves actioning what communities can achieve, with support from SEAI programmes, especially...Another aspect of RESS that the SEAI is responsible for is the management of the community benefit fund
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Debate: Joint Committee On Social Protection, Community And Rural Development And The Islands
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_social_protection_community_and_rural_development_and_the_islands/2022-03-30/2/
30 Mar 2022 -
Philip Newsome I agree with those points on the role of the SEAI, the trusted intermediaries and the...broader community engagement and community framework that we have that underpins RESS....We have a target of 500 MW of community energy projects by 2030....As I mentioned, the SEAI is making available significant resources through toolkits on its website to...There is grant funding, trusted intermediaries and trusted advisers.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Environment And Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_environment_and_climate_action/2022-04-05/2/
5 Apr 2022 -
SEAI’s community energy grant scheme has demonstrated the power of aggregating projects across homes,...communities, and commercial buildings....addresses some of the key challenges to date, namely, multi-annual funding for contractors, more generous grants...All SEAI programmes follow the same principles of establishing clear objectives, focused development,
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Debate: Joint Committee On Housing, Local Government And Heritage
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_housing_local_government_and_heritage/2022-04-28/2/
28 Apr 2022 -
, Climate and Communications, and the Department of Transport....We enable direct action through our design and delivery of grant and incentive programmes, and through...The SEAI is also represented on the energy in buildings and communities programme of the International...The BER is a requirement for many of the SEAI’s grants schemes....the publication of the long-term renovation strategy; mobilised investment in renovation through our grant
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Debate: Joint Committee On Environment And Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_environment_and_climate_action/2022-05-24/2/
24 May 2022 -
My first question is for the SEAI....Its opening statement stated: We are catalysts for action through our grant and incentive programmes...A previous meeting of the committee heard there was some confusion among the public around the grants...Vincent de Paul recommended that local community energy advisers be deployed in communities for two reasons...What efforts are the local SEAI groups making to target those working people who are in good jobs and
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Debate: Committee Of Public Accounts
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/committee_of_public_accounts/2022-03-24/2/
24 Mar 2022 -
, Climate and Communications, and the Department of Transport....grants, such that expenditure across SEAI's various programmes decreased by around 15% year on year....SEAI puts citizens, communities, suppliers and other stakeholders at the heart of everything it delivers...We are catalysts for action through grant and incentive programmes we deliver and through our capacity-building...processes with citizens, communities and the business and public sectors.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Environment And Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_environment_and_climate_action/2022-04-05/2/
5 Apr 2022 -
Is the SEAI of the opinion that planning permission is needed for external installation or is it exempt...Will the SEAI comment on the sustainable energy communities, SECs, in regard to the opportunity it sees...Every time I meet the SECs they reference a new grant or support that is to be available to them to support...They refer to it as LEAF funding but I do not know how the SEAI refers to it....It is interesting to hear from the SEAI representatives about the evolving nature of the schemes, the
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Debate: Joint Committee On Environment And Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_environment_and_climate_action/2022-05-24/2/
24 May 2022 -
The witnesses have talked about microgeneration and community energy production....Will the Department change that situation and thus allow communities to produce their own energy and...My next question is for the SEAI regarding its three-stage journey of learn-plan-do. Earlier Dr....Byrne said that 655 sustainable energy communities have been established....Is it true that the SEAI will stop providing grants to community sports groups for LED floodlights?
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Debate: Joint Committee On Housing, Local Government And Heritage
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_housing_local_government_and_heritage/2022-04-05/2/
5 Apr 2022 -
Environment, Climate and Communications, and the Department of Transport....The SEAI puts citizens, communities, suppliers, and other stakeholders at the heart of everything it...We are catalysts for action through grant and incentive programmes we deliver and through our capacity-building...processes with citizens, communities and the business and public sectors....In concluding, I thank our colleagues in the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2021-09-30/152/#pq_152
Thu, 30 Sep 2021 -
Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the supports that...are in place for owners of dormer houses that do not qualify for SEAI insulation funding; and if he
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Debate: Joint Committee On Environment And Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_environment_and_climate_action/2022-04-05/2/
5 Apr 2022 -
Brian O'Mahony, head of the community and national retrofit department....SEAI is at the forefront of Ireland's clean energy transition....SEAI places citizens, communities, suppliers and other stakeholders at the heart of everything we deliver...We are catalysts for action through our grant and incentive programmes and our capacity-building processes...with citizens, communities, and the business and public sectors.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2022-06-02/25/
2 Jun 2022 -
Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú We must deal with this issue of communal heating systems....We need a Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, grant system that will deliver a change back
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Parliamentary Question
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2022-05-04/90/#pq_90
Wed, 4 May 2022 -
Deputy Francis Noel Duffy asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if consideration...will be given to rewarding SEAI retrofitting grants where works have already commenced but meet the...SEAI grant criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22012/22]
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Debate: Joint Committee On Transport And Communications
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_transport_and_communications/2022-07-13/3/
13 Jul 2022 -
The SEAI is at the forefront of delivering Ireland's energy revolution....We are catalysts for action through our grant and incentive programmes and our capacity-building processes...and policy objectives and includes promotion of EV uptake towards the national EV target by 2030 via grant...Promoting vehicle charging solutions availability to homes, businesses and public bodies via grant support...community network and community energy grants.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Environment And Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_environment_and_climate_action/2022-05-24/2/
24 May 2022 -
Bruton The framework outlined is top class and hits all the right issues in terms of the involvement of communities...For three years, they have had grants of €5,000 per charger....Does the SEAI have tools to ensure that each delivers a certain amount or sets the ambition to deliver...energy saving and that they are not waiting for the various obligated entities to come on with those grants...My question for the SEAI and the Department is how we get from the good planning frameworks to delivering
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2022-04-07/33/
7 Apr 2022 -
The Government announced that a new national energy upgrade scheme will offer increased grant levels...People need more information, updates and communication. How do people qualify for the scheme?...The scheme is being administered by the SEAI.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Environment And Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_environment_and_climate_action/2022-05-24/2/
24 May 2022 -
Ireland applied for, and was granted, state aid approval for RESS....It was heavily scrutinised by the Commission DG ENER and we were granted it....As our colleague from SEAI mentioned, we are planning to introduce next year an easier route for projects...That will inform the community sector of the optimum route for it to take....RESS is a good option for communities but is challenging in its nature.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Environment And Climate Action
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_environment_and_climate_action/2022-05-24/2/
24 May 2022 -
It is a sharing and learning peer network for communities to find out what other communities are doing...This is very much a way of supporting communities at their own pace....The challenge for us is building a pathway for communities into all SEAI programmes....It is finding ways for communities to participate in their own way....There are challenges around how grants are structured and seek co-finance.
