Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

We are aware of that report. I mentioned earlier that the warmer homes programme, our flagship energy poverty programme, started off as a shallow measures programme. It involved very light measures. It started off back in around 2009. We would have seen large numbers of homes being visited but subject to relatively shallow measures. On foot of the report of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and also a different report to identify the efficacy of the programme, we have been pivoting it from an energy poverty to an energy efficiency programme. What that means is that we are taking much more significant measures on a per-home basis. We are now doing pre-BER assessments. We look at the BER rating of the home before we start, then we put significant levels of retrofit into the home, and we look at the BER level after completion. We are looking at that definite uplift. The average spend on the programme was around €2,500 to €3,000, which pivoted up to about €18,000 to €20,000 last year and up to €27,000 on the sub programme, the warmth and well-being programme. We are addressing those measures and concerns from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

On the monitoring on an individual home level, we do not monitor every single home. I might refer to my colleague, Mr. O'Mahony to comment on that. We do a degree of monitoring.