Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is okay once we are keeping an eye on it and once all parts move as quickly as possible when the court case is over. Nobody will complain about timelines being improved. Deputy O'Rourke dealt with the issue of the money that was to be ring-fenced for retrofitting.

It has been brought to my attention that a number of medium-sized builders involved in installing heat pumps, dealing with retrofitting projects and so on have applied to be one-stop shop operators but do not fit the criteria. Only a small number of companies do. What is the situation? Another complaint is that people can still approach some of these builders, who have built up a significant level of competence in this field, but they can only avail of a limited number of grants, for example, for heat pumps and insulation. There are other grants for windows and so on that only fall within the gambit of those who can operate as one-stop-shops, for example, some of the large energy suppliers and a number of companies that seem like they have been set up very quickly. The concern is that the work will still get done by some of these builders, but it will be subcontracted to them. They are afraid that they might not necessarily be the beneficiaries of the contracts.