Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It just not just there is a bit of catching up to do according to that graph. If this will only achieve a quarter of the reductions in emissions that we need out of the projected 3 million tonnes, how do you make up three quarters? There is a huge gap and I am trying to figure out how it will be bridged. I take on board what Ms Buckley said, that some people are doing work themselves, but she and I know that most of it is being done with grant assistance. The local authority is small enough now because they have done the low-hanging fruit and have done a lot of good work. Some 75,000 homes have had some work done. However, the number actually receiving deep retrofits is 3,000. It is in the briefing; it is just over 3,000 last year. It is welcome that is happening but I refer to the pace it is happening at. There is a marathon and a half and more with it to be run to actually get to that.