Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion
Dr. Ciaran Byrne:
I am not sure that I spoke about a single homogenous definition of "community", but if I did, let me clarify my remark. There is no single homogenous definition of "community". One of the key skills and strengths of our community programme is that we take a flexible approach to communities, as my colleague outlined.
I will hand over to my colleague. I do not know whether we have details on the specific issue of the schools programme, but we can discuss the outreach programme and access.
The Deputy spoke about attics being lagged and whatnot. I assume that they fall under the warm homes programme, which provides free energy upgrades. If so, a policy change was announced this February to the effect that we would be facilitating revisits to homes. Heretofore, a home was visited once and that was it. We have changed that policy so that homes can be visited again. We will be able to go back to those homes as part of the overall revisit strategy.
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