Róisín Garvey (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will cut off Mr. Boland. We have often had workshops by the SEAI, but they seem to be very aloof and talking about a whole community thing. They are not going into the practicalities. I have found it more useful to bring in tradesmen, solar panel fitters and people who have practical skills on the ground, who are able to tell people exactly what is involved and happening, if they want to go down the retrofitting road. We have funded climate officers and energy officers in every single county council in Ireland. It is time for people to start asking them to do their job and help out with this missing education piece. I do not think it will be all down to the SEAI. It has regional community officers but, as was said, it needs to happen in every county. Now that we are funding full-time climate officers and climate teams, including energy officers and community climate officers, we should put our expectancy on them to make this happen. Mr. Boland is absolutely right. We have funded the staff for local authorities to now do this.