Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to revert to the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, grant schemes. I received a reply to a parliamentary question on 25 May from the Minister with regard to this. To be honest, I was a bit taken aback by the reply. It outlined the number of homes that were upgraded. These figures were for the first four months. I asked for the figures for 2022. The reply outlined to me the figures for 2021 and also the figures for January to the end of April 2022, which was helpful. A couple of things stood out. The better energy warmer homes scheme had 2,126 done in all of 2021. In the first four months of this year, 1,133 homes were done. The better energy warmth and well-being scheme just had 69 done in the first four months of this year. The figure that really jumped out at me was for the deep retrofits. Ten deep retrofits were done in 2021. In the first four months of this year, there were absolutely none. It is the same with the community energy grants. I understand that these can be bigger and there may be reasons for that due to it being a bigger piece of work. The national home retrofit scheme one-stop shop, which is for the really deep retrofits, had 805 completed in 2021 with 188 completed in the first four months of this year. There were ten deep retrofits done in the whole of last year and none completed in the first four months of this year. Will Mr. Deegan respond to that please?