Mr. Brian O'Mahony:

You detected the accent. I had been hiding it.

The delivery of dormer windows is more complex. What the Deputy referred to comes under the warmer homes scheme. When the SEAI does a survey of a property with dormer windows it means, as the Deputy said, a more complicated upgrade because there are structural issues, in addition to ensuring we get that airtightness. Typically, we have not got the solution to that at present. The Deputy is correct about that. It is something we have to figure out and we have to help to improve homeowners on it. It is a problem and a gap, similar to traditional homes, but we will get a solution on that side. I do not have an answer for the Deputy today but it is an issue.

We see that when private homeowners do this, it is the same thing. Where there is a dormer window, there is a room in the roof or attic space, or on the second floor if it is a dormer-type house. What homeowners are typically doing is basically drylining or, everywhere there is a wall, insulating, sealing it all off, tying that into the interfaces with the attic insulation, including the dwarf walls and the wall plate. It is very complicated. The Deputy is completely right. Due to the construction type of those homes, it is a challenge for people to upgrade. It is a more difficult solution for those homes versus homes that do not have dormer windows.