Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 25 January 2023
44. Deputy Louise O'Reilly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of funding that was allocated to the IDA’s climate action initiatives by his Department, including lean/green, and IDAs GoGreen in 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3481/23]
Amharc ar fhreagraSustainability is a core pillar of IDA Ireland’s 2021-2024 strategy, Driving Recovery and Sustainable Growth. Under this pillar, IDA have pledged to promote a sustainable approach to all investment; support decarbonisation and responsible production across the IDA client base; win sustainability investments to drive a green recovery; collaborate across Government on environmental sustainability; and promote environmental sustainability in IDA’s own activities and specifically across the office and property portfolio.
In line with the Strategy, in 2022, together with Enterprise Ireland and using funding from the National Recovery and Resilience Fund, IDA Ireland commenced the Enterprise Emissions Reduction Investment Fund. This fund aids capital investment for decarbonisation technologies; capital investment in energy marketing; and R&D feasibility grants in sustainability. IDA have also developed a new scheme under the Sustainable Recovery provision of the European Commission’s Temporary State Aid Framework. This will expand their offering to large clients in the areas of decarbonisation and the digital transition.
LeanStart provides up to 7 days with a Lean consultant, to introduce Lean principles, agile processes including the completion of a specific cost reduction project. In addition, the LeanStart can support companies develop a strategic roadmap for their digitalisation journey.
LeanPlus provides a medium-scale business process improvement or digitalisation project with a Lean consultant, which will result in sustained use by the company of Lean techniques, digital technologies and related methodologies and will achieve significant measurable gains in company capabilities and competitiveness.
GreenStart is intended for clients unfamiliar with and/or lacking capability in business process improvement methodologies. It will give companies an introduction to the potential of using Environmental Best Practice to improve their competitiveness. It seeks to prepare clients to progress to further and more sustained environmental programmes in order to drive cost reduction measures along with capability & capacity building. The funding is available to IDA Clients.
The GreenPlus grant is intended to assist companies to deepen their capability in environmental best practice, in order to deliver an improvement in company performance and competitiveness; deliver an embedded and sustainable improvement in the company capability, and; develop and embed staff skills in environmental best practice. Companies will have had some prior experience of developing environmental best practice.
The following table outlines the amount of funding which was allocated under IDA’s LeanStart, LeanPlus, GreenStart and GreenPlus schemes in the years 2021 and 2022. No funding has been provided under the Go Green Fund to Date. There have been no payments to date in 2023.
|
Year |
Grant Type |
Amount € (,000) |
|
2021 |
Leanplus |
12,350 |
|
2021 |
Leanstart |
38,400 |
|
2021 |
Greenplus |
12,040 |
|
2021 |
Greenstart |
5,000 |
|
2022 |
Leanplus |
90,268 |
|
2022 |
Leanstart |
15,000 |
|
2022 |
Greenplus |
51,719 |
|
2022 |
Greenstart |
8,600 |
