Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion

Mr. Jim Gannon:

We have a managing agent with whom we work to inspect across all of our programmes. We must constantly balance resources as to whether personnel will go and inspect under the Better Energy Homes programme, the Better Energy Communities programme, the EXEED programme or the warmth and well-being or warmer homes schemes. Again, given the upsurge in activity, we have found that there has been a delay in getting to it with regard to all programmes, so it is not about a single programme. There has been a bit of delay with all programmes, which is because of the success of the Citizens' Assembly, this committee's report and people's interest in that. As there is an increased volume, it is simply a matter of us catching through a dramatic increase. Take the example of electric vehicles, where there was a fourfold increase in the first quarter of the year. People are far more active in respect of this so we are trying to catch up with that.

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