Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This question is for anyone, but Mr. O'Mahony mentioned the different types of buildings, including terraced, semi-detached and all the rest of it. Is there any scope, or is it something that happens already, regarding measures for locations where there are terraces or apartments that are a mix of local authority and privately owned? In the first place, that means Mount Sion Road in Cork and the streets off it, which are a 1930s build, similar to Congress Road or wherever it was in Dungarvan. There is a mixture of houses. It seems that it is maybe inefficient to expect retrofitting in places such as that. I am sure it can be delivered, but are there cost savings that could be achieved through a partnership between local authorities and the SEAI for private occupiers? Perhaps the whole street could be done at once, through some sort of a scheme for both private homeowners and local authority tenants, rather than a patchwork of two or three a year from the local authority and then whatever private individuals choose to do themselves.

There is obviously a difficulty in that private homeowners, depending on their circumstances, if they are not on medical cards or do not qualify for the warmer homes scheme, would be expected to make a contribution. Still, it seems to me there is a certain loss or inefficiency if there is an area, a whole street, all of which clearly requires some work, where different tenures are coming at it from different directions. That is particularly so with terraced buildings, whatever about semi-detached properties and all the rest. Surely, particularly with terraced buildings, there must be cost savings or efficiencies that could be achieved. Is that something that has been explored at all?