Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Energy Poverty: Discussion

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

In fairness, that piece of research was commissioned at a time when there was no evidence in the northern hemisphere whatsoever in that regard. Bizarrely, it has taken a phenomenal period of time for the research to be carried out. It has taken even longer for it to be published. It was eventually completed last October and still has not been published. The Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, is now talking about deprioritising investment in retrofitting at the same time as we are trying to address issues in our health service. It is carrying out its own research into the benefits of the retrofit programme, all of which ignores the health aspects. After the housing crisis, health is probably the next biggest crisis in the country.

Mr. O'Mahony wants to come in.

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