Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State. With the popularity and widespread use of electric cycles and scooters, the Minister of State is correct in that the catchment for active transport has now become much larger because of those electric vehicles and we need to take that into account.

My second question is on the warmer homes schemes. It states that the average time from application to completion was almost 26 month, which seems like a long time. Is there any way of speeding up processes within that because we have that large target again within the programme for Government to retrofit 500,000 homes across the country and the warmer homes scheme will obviously be part of that number? I have also seen figures that up to 1 million homes in Ireland could do with retrofitting but we will obviously target the first 500,000 that need it most and are at risk of fuel poverty.

Can we speed up that average wait time of 26 months in any way? Where are the delays in that process?