Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am wondering about the experience on retrofitting. It is picking up. The combination of 100% grants, 80% grants and 50% grants is a good package. I hope the loan scheme will put the last brick in the wall. Does the Department do anyex post evaluation? The Minister of State made the point that many people do this to get more comfort. Obviously, that is a great thing for people living in cold homes. In the context of the impact on emissions, however, how well is retrofitting performing in terms of reducing emissions? Is that sort of ex postanalysis carried out? The risk is that people heat spaces they did not heat previously and the benefits are dissipated in that way. There have been critiques suggesting that in other countries a significant amount of the benefit has been lost in that fashion.