Mr. Pat Barry:

The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment has a pilot scheme to specifically target people with health and respiratory issues to improve the quality of their homes with the expectation that this will reduce their healthcare costs.

In terms of where we are at, it is worth noting that one can walk into a garage any day of the week, buy a new electric car with 0% finance and walk out the same day for the same as it costs to do an entire deep energy renovation on a home. It is a much more complicated undertaking for a homeowner. We must get to the same level of simplicity in delivering a deep energy renovation as is currently offered by the car dealerships in terms of accessing grants for electric cars.