Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for that. On the issue of the local authority targets, there are some authorities that are better than others when it comes to retrofitting their stock. While there are ones that are not as efficient or not as able to improve their stock as quickly as others, I accept finance is not the issue and there are skills shortages. That said, it would be great to have a local authority we could hold up as having retrofitted 80% of its stock. I accept what the Minister of State also said about the new housing stock from 2018 onwards that is A-rated, but I am thinking about the older stock and looking at this from the tenants' perspective as well as an environmental perspective. We need to ensure that older housing stock is brought up to speed, even with the shallow retrofit.