Mr. Andrew Brownlee:

Maybe this goes back to some of the ideas we spoke about earlier on. At present it is demand led so we need a household to decide it can afford it with the grant from SEAI and also have the time to apply for the grant. This is fine but it is down to individual choices. Deputy Daly is right that if people have to choose what to afford this month or in the next six months perhaps it does not make sense. If it were done on a street-by-street basis with public investment behind it, coming at it with the view of putting in place retrofitting infrastructure for a community, it would change the dynamic and the scale at which it could be done.