Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Energy Poverty: Discussion
Dr. Ciaran Byrne:
To clarify it for the Deputy, we have two broad strands of the scheme. One is what we call the can-pay scheme, where a person organises privately with a contractor for the scheme, and the other one is the warmer home scheme. On the warmer home scheme, we have 36 contractors on that, which is a procured scheme, and each of those provided our cost to us. We do have, although not to hand, the costing for the external wrap. I do not want to be unhelpful to the Deputy but that would probably fall under commercially sensitive information with the individual contractors to the warmer home scheme because it is a procured scheme. To be helpful to the Deputy, my colleague, Mr. Brian O'Mahony, has done a lot of work on costings, and he may be able to give some sense, in terms of our valuation of cost, what a typical wrap would cost.
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