Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Can we ask the authority for some additional information? The correspondence states that since the individual energy upgrade scheme was launched in 2009, 22,747 homes built pre-1940 have received grants for 31,287 upgrades thereunder. Very often, they fall into a different category because of the nature of how they are built. Can we ask specifically about, for example, protected structures and how many are included in that figure, if that is known? I was talking to somebody recently who lives in an older house and who could not get the wraparound.

It is a brick house and as a consequence, the nature of the build is different. They had to get it done internally and it is not a particularly big house either. There was obviously quite a take on the inside, with wardrobes and things like that. You can imagine the kind of thing. It would be useful for us to get some idea of the challenges as regards what can be done with some of those older properties, including the kinds of works carried out by virtue of the way the houses were built. We should also ask them about protected or listed structures.