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

I thank the witnesses. I may pick up on some of the points made by Senator Higgins. The warmer homes backlog is in the region of 7,000. The Minister indicated in February that we would need to get to 400 a month to start clearing that between this year and next. Are we at 400 a month? How many did we do in the first quarter? If we are not at 400 a month, when will we reach that? How will we deal with that backlog if we are not there yet?

Will the SEAI give the committee a year by year and scheme by scheme target out to 2030? It would be helpful for the committee if that were available.

On attic and cavity walls, in a written reply to me, the Minister indicated he expected there might be a doubling of demand from 4,500 to 9,000. Where are we on that?

If I want to apply for the 80% scheme or the one-stop shop scheme today, are the schemes open and available for people to apply?

I refer to the key performance indicators, KPIs. These include 500,000 B2 ratings and 600,000 heat pumps. Are there any fuel poverty or social indicators in the KPIs, such as taking people out of fuel and energy poverty? There could be a scenario, and Mr. Byrne indicated this, where we could deliver a lot of B2 ratings by getting B3 ratings to B2 through small works, but it is a very different thing to say we have taken a certain cohort out of fuel poverty. I do not know what that would equate to and whether that would involve taking out of those E, F and G ratings and bringing them up to C or B2 ratings. I would like a comment from the SEAI on the indicators and incentives to deliver on B2 ratings and heat pumps versus taking people out of fuel poverty.