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

I asked a question that was touched on but not answered. It was about the relationship between the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and the Department of housing. Mr. Deegan touched on it in some of his answers. Different local authorities tell me different things. However, they indicate that the funding they get from the Department of Housing is not adequate to meet the requirements on a unit-by-unit basis. It is efficient and possible to do it on a big block of apartments but on a unit-by-unit basis the numbers are not adequate to make it cost-effective given that costs have risen. I do not expect Mr. Deegan to say the Department of Housing is doing everything wrong. How much responsibility does the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications have? What is its role in driving the retrofitting in local authority housing? Is it primarily advisory or how does it work? What is the breakdown of responsibility?