Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will follow up on the point made by the Chair. One of the big issues I see outside of the delays is that years ago a range of people, and pensioners come to mind, had a shallow retrofit conducted and works undertaken under the warmer homes scheme. In truth, this barely made a blip of a difference to heating those homes. It certainly would not have registered on the BER rating. As I understand it, there is still a rule that the SEAI will not go back into these homes and there is no second visit. This is something that was committed to and then it came off the table for some reason. How will the Government approach prioritising these people? I know there are general approaches. Generally the schemes are designed to support to a greater degree those who are more disadvantaged. It is not happening. There are delays of two years and, on top of this, the people I am speaking about are not even on the schemes now because they were visited a decade ago. How will the Government square this? I can think of any number of people in my constituency.