Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

They really need the funding to be able to carry out schemes and they are the ones who cannot get it. We see underspend here and last week the Committee on Public Accounts heard about the amount of money that was underspent, and it is really frustrating for those people. They are the people who are talking to us, and I am sure they are talking to the Acting Chair as well, who would love to be able to retrofit their homes or put in the insulation but the scheme simply does not fit their circumstances. We need to develop schemes which fit the circumstances of the people most in need. That is the difficulty.