Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

It would be good financial practice in grants, because we are committing a fund to a person, to have a timeline at the end of it. The difference between those two is that the home energy upgrade involves a full energy package for the home. It takes a bit more work. I would describe it as analogous to doing a full extension on a home. We have changed it slightly on the community grant scheme. That was effectively a year-to-year programme and it changed between 2022 and 2023. When it was closed, we had it as applications in, do the works and close it out all within one calendar year. That effectively amounted to a seven- or eight-month working window for people.