Mr. Jim Scheer:

The €20 million for the midlands will be administered through the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, not the SEAI. Our involvement is as part of a high-level housing retrofit task force convened by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, which the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government is also on, to add our expertise on how that might be delivered. I understand that the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government already has a €30 million fund for upgrading local authority housing. It will be augmented by the €20 million. The energy parts of the upgrades that are occurring through that scheme will be enhanced to the B2 level.