Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection
Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Robert Deegan:
I acknowledge that nothing is perfect. There is always room for improvement and we are always learning. This is an iterative process and nobody has actually done it before. Nobody has retrofitted the proportion of the housing stock that we are talking about doing in as short a space of time as we are doing it in. We are learning from international experience and from our own experience. We are coming up with new actions on an annual and ongoing basis as part of the climate action plan.
Regarding local authority housing stock, the overall target is 30,000 homes to be retrofitted by the end of-----
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