Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy makes a fair point. The quality of our housing stock, in both private builds and social housing, as regards heat pump technology has been second to none, particularly in the past ten or 15 years. The solar PV grants have been rolled out and most new homes now have solar PV. The design standards for social housing, as the Deputy will be aware, are a matter for the housing Minister, Deputy Browne. He made comments on the standardisation of it just yesterday. It makes sense to have solar PV energy. It is a cheap, clean form of energy. If we look at how households have responded to the SEAI grant for it, the growth has been exceptional. Rooftop solar is a big part of energy generation now. We are doing well in it, but we can always do better. The focus from the Government has been on the retrofitting of older social housing stock and rightly so. In the past four years, we retrofitted just short of 15,000 social homes to a very high standard.