Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If we had that information, it would not be to exclude any group but to include it in a different way. There is a suite of measures for over-70s anyway. They get the electricity allowance and so on. Having that information would be helpful.

Over the past week, I have examined the single measures that people can opt for instead of having deep retrofits. They are quite attractive. It means that someone can put in solar panels, insulation or whatever measure they pick. It probably gives a household 80% of what it would get with a deep retrofit with much less expenditure. Maybe we should highlight this approach. It is also much quicker.

I agree with prioritising, but one of the challenges is that those waiting on the warmer homes scheme are waiting on the State. Is there a tendency for those who go private to get priority because they have the money to pay? How do we deal with this challenge?

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