Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to pick up on a couple of issues previous speakers asked about. Deputy O'Rourke spoke about the attic insulation figures, and Deputies Bruton and Whitmore spoke about the idea of shallow retrofitting.

Is it not true that attic insulation really fell off a cliff from 2011 to 2019? What was the rationale for that? Was it Government policy? Was it a change in the grants that were available? We have figures to the effect that 51,577 attics were insulated in 2011 whereas in 2019, it was 7,562. What explains that significant cliff edge? Was it Government policy? Was it a change in behavioural attitudes?