Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Before we bring in the SEAI, I will say that, on that last point, we would all be concerned if public money was being misused to increase the value of a house.

However, that is addressed in the refurbishment grant scheme. There is a clawback built into it and I am sure a clawback could easily be built into this. It would require a change to the scheme that is there at the moment but, rather than reinventing the wheel, we should probably take some of the model that is there in the Department of housing and apply it in the Department of energy to address this issue. It is a big problem in the private rented sector. It actually came up at the young scientist exhibition last week and St. Vincent de Paul has also raised it on a number of occasions.