Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023
2:00 am
Mr. Graham Doyle:
I do not want to use up the Deputy's time but there was a full spend in 2024 so it has improved considerably. There are probably more than 35,000 properties in the local authority stock that already meet the B2 standard. That is the number I have in front of me but I believe it is an old number. Some 75,000 - those in the midlands bring it up to 80,000 - have had a shallow retrofit done previously. Everything we build now is of such a high standard from an energy perspective that the number meeting that higher energy rating - the 35,000 or whatever the bigger number is now - will increase.
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