Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion

Mr. Robert Deegan:

Doing it as a whole-house upgrade is something we are really pushing and that is the whole idea of the one-stop shop scheme. That will stop that kind of recurring preliminary cost-type issue but, at the same time, we want to make sure that people who could not do it all in one go have the option to do it in a step-by-step manner. It is obviously more cost-effective to do it all in one go but the affordability issue that has been mentioned by Deputy Flaherty will be an impediment to some people doing it all in one go. One of the principles of the national retrofit plan is universality. We want to have a solution for every consumer cohort and homeowner type. For that reason, we are still allowing both, but there absolutely is an option for a one-stop shop to come in and do the whole house all in one go, project managed from end to end to ensure quality and take people through the grant and administration process.

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