Mr. Robert Deegan:

We are obviously in regular contact with our colleagues in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage who oversee the energy efficiency programme for local authority houses. This year, the budget for the scheme has been increased greatly to €85 million, which is a significant increase on what it was in previous years. They are gradually moving towards the deeper measures and the installation of heat pumps. There are particular issues, as you mention, with the concrete walls. As the low-hanging fruit have been picked off, they will have to move to the harder-to-treat houses. That will be partly enabled, also, by forthcoming guidelines that are being developed by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage regarding traditional buildings and the best treatments and approaches to retrofitting those.