Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

Increasing a grant is a policy decision for our Department. The end point of a policy intervention is to have some outcome. In this case, it would be to have more people availing of attic and wall grants. At this stage, we do not believe that increasing this grant would deliver retrofitting of more homes, and it might just inflate prices in the sector. I ask my colleague, Mr. O'Mahony, to comment on this aspect as well.