Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

That is aggregation. The Deputy is on the money. I mentioned earlier that in respect of the warmer homes scheme, we have significantly increased the allocation to contractors in order that they can try to take that aggregation efficiency on that scheme. In the context of working with local authorities, we have an existing programme called the midlands home programme where we looked at aggregation and got some learning from it but Covid got in the way of everything and really upset the balance. We recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Fingal County Council and identified an estate in north Dublin as a pilot area. The estate is about 50:50 in terms of local authority and privately owned. The local authority will retrofit the homes while we will roll in behind it to see if we can encourage private homeowners in that estate to avail of the same contract rates and build that aggregation. We have identified a contractor that is reaching out to homeowners to look at the style, type and depth of retrofit and the type of costs it might cost for local authority homes. We want to see whether we can replicate that package with private homeowners. That builds aggregation where a contractor goes into an estate and effectively works on all homes. The hardest part of this is that the local authority as the homeowner in some cases can decide to retrofit a home to a large extent, the next-door neighbour in a privately owned former local authority house may or may not be able to-----