Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

As we referred to earlier in the meeting, we have done a pilot programme with Fingal County Council. The exact situation that has been outlined exists in the Strandmill estate, where a number of homes are owned by the local authority and a number in the middle are privately owned. The proof of concept was to get the same contractor to do all of the homes in one sitting. The contractor gets the economy of scale in terms of setting up, but we can get a number of homes and a mix of homes also. Fundamentally, the home is the home - the difference is who lives in it and who pays. We worked that through and we have some learnings from it. We will try to accelerate and roll those out with other local authorities and scale it up.

In terms of the specifics, last year the attic and cavity grant increased to approximately 80% of the value of the works. We are still seeing a fair degree of take-up on that. Nearly 14,000 of those projects have been done this year so far. The local authority programme at Strandmill is the programme we are going to see elsewhere.