Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion

Photo of Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is grand. My final question, for Mr. Armstrong, is on the local authority retrofit programme. I am aware that local authorities had a concern that there were cost overruns which were not being addressed when the authorities went back to the Department. I do not know if Mr. Paul Benson is with the Department group today but I believe the Department has issued a directive indicating that the amounts allocated for each future piece of retrofit work have been increased but that local authorities will not be reimbursed retrospectively for work that has been done. Does Mr. Armstrong have any update on that issue?

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