Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The cost is approximately €20,000 per home. This is not solely about grant aid to local authorities to retrofit social housing. It is expected that approximately 1,000 houses will be retrofitted but this is only the spine of what we are doing. In conjunction with this, we are doubling the warmer homes budget to ensure that not only social housing but a mix of housing is upgraded, although not all of the latter will receive 100% State support to deliver the change. We are working on an area basis to aggregate the contracting out of the work and the guarantee of the quality of the work and, hopefully, to make access to funds easier.