Darren O'Rourke (Meath East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I would encourage the Minister and the SEAI. There is logic in the approach of an energy-efficient home and putting in a heat pump in terms of the efficiency of the heat pump. There is a risk, if one reduces that standard, that the heat pump is more inefficient and more costly to run. I make the point - it is not only me making it - that we have to keep an eye on cost in relation to heat pumps in terms of making them an attractive proposition. There is a number of levers that are at Government's disposal in relation to that. They need to be considered.