Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Andrew Brownlee:
As we said in the statement, it is a careful balancing act. We are faced with a housing impairment. It is really important that we accompany that with significant infrastructure development, but that comes with an environmental footprint that we constantly have to manage and mitigate. Retrofitting is an important part of the jigsaw. In general terms, we are really happy with the multi-annual commitment in the national development plan, NDP, and the commitment to the industry in the budget. In terms to retrofitting plans, as we said in our statement, the challenge is take-up. The challenge is persuading people to retrofit their premises, engage in retrofitting activity and access the grants that are available. There is a skills challenge as well, to upskill the workforce so it can take on that retrofitting work. It is quite a micro-industry. It tends to be one- or two-person-----
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