Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

I will invite my colleagues, Ruth Buggie and Brian O'Mahony, to respond to the other elements of the Deputy’s question.

In a sense, we are going back to what the Warmer Homes scheme was originally designed to cover, which was the lighter or shallower retrofit of homes quickly. As Mr. Randles outlined, the scheme has progressed, following policy changes, towards deeper retrofits. This is in line not just with Government policy but with European legislation, fulfilling the energy performance directive and so on. We are moving towards deeper retrofits. We have also reopened the scheme to revisits. What we are doing at the moment, in terms of the waiting list, is effectively a slice and dice process. We are determining where the properties are, whether we can aggregate more, what kinds of homes are involved and what kinds of measures we think they may need. We are determining if we can lean back into treating some of them a bit quicker.

We have had interactions, as my colleagues will now outline, with the healthy, age-friendly housing initiative run by the local authorities. I ask Ms Buggie to elaborate.