Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

I will answer initially and then pass to my colleagues. It is a good point.

It is useful to tell the committee that we introduced grants of up to 80% for attics and cavities. We have seen an increase of 280% year on year in terms of the number of people applying for those grants.

By way of background, over the past ten years we would have put in place somewhere in the region of 260,000 attic grants and 220,000 grants for cavities. A significant amount, but not all, of the work has been done. We have been asked about the shallow measures under the warmer homes scheme and whether we can do things more quickly due to the emerging situation. Given the dynamics of the warmer homes scheme, approximately 30% of the applications are now suitable for shallow measures in terms of the surveys that have been done. I will ask Mr. O'Mahony to comment on the wider piece on what is out there regarding homes. Mr. Randles might comment on the warmer homes scheme and shallow measures.