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It said that any projects which received a letter of grant offer would be “absolutely assured” the grant would be paid. A parliamentary reply from Mr Bruton in June gave an indication of the huge surge of applications in 2019. The grant offered more than 50 per cent of the costs of a deep retrofit of older homes with a C2 energy rating or worse, bringing its rating up as high as A3. It has set a target of 500,000 energy retrofits of existing housing stock in State over the next two decades. One contractor, who was an approved service provider for the scheme, told The Irish Times the announcement “took everybody by surprise”.

Several homeowners also expressed frustration on Twitter at the length of time the evaluation process was taking, with some waiting for 14 weeks or more in 2019. However, there were indications that work on some projects had already commenced in the expectation of grant approval. Prospect of a contested US election outcome in 2020 is very real, Government must get better at managing message after Tuesday’s disaster, Covid-19 plan puts whole country at Level Two, which is nonsense, Dr Tony Holohan expected to return to his post next week, NPHET recommends stricter household visitor limits across the State, How one couple’s weekend away resulted in 30 Covid-19 cases, Return to normal life, Russians were told – except for Vladimir Putin, Séamus Woulfe did ‘nothing involving impropriety’ to justify resignation, Denham report finds, Miriam Lord: This Government is all out of ideas. The estimated annual fuel costs are based on a typical occupancy and heating of the house … However, this was then discontinued in favour of promoting a grant for the more energy and cost-efficient heat pumps. Housing Aid for Older People Scheme. Fine Gael TD Noel Rock said the scheme was complicated and involved the homeowner taking too many chances. That number had increased to more than 300 by the July deadline for applications. Grants are paid after the work is completed and you have paid your contractor.

Homeowners too expressed their frustration. File photograph. Prior to April 2018 there was a €750 grant available for fitting a high-efficiency combi boiler with heating controls. While the allocation for the pilot increased from €4.7 million to €7 million in 2018, it was clearly not enough to cover the substantial spike in the number of applications. “This is a massive hit.”. The grants paid last year were €4.7 million. The Deep Retrofit Grant Scheme is now Closed What does a Deep Retrofit involve? The Deep Retrofit of a home means carrying out multiple energy upgrades all at once to achieve a BER of A-rating. Housing Adaptation Grant for People with a Disability. While the deep retrofit programme was a three-year pilot and was due to finish at the end of 2019, the contractor, who spoke on the basis of anonymity, said the SEAI had given no indication that all the schemes currently under evaluation would not receive grants. If the cost of the work (including VAT) is less than the maximum grant amount, you will get a grant for the actual cost of the work.. The grant offered more than 50 per cent of the costs of a deep retrofit of older homes with a C2 energy rating or worse, bringing its rating up as high as A3. It is understood that some 54 projects, covering insulation and heating for 302 homes, will be affected by the decision. There was a large increase in applications in 2019, according to Mr Bruton’s reply to a written question from Sinn Féin’s Pearse Doherty. More than 300 homeowners who had been awaiting approval for a grant under the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) deep retrofit scheme will not now receive their funding.

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