Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Housing and Retrofitting: Discussion

Mr. Jim Gannon:

It was one apartment in a block, as distinct from the whole block being done and one being taken out.

When Marie Donnelly was in the European Commission she stated that Ireland is unique in that we have a register of contractors for our better energy homes programme. It is something that other jurisdictions have started to mimic because it has that quality. We know they are tax compliant and that they have insurance. If they do not perform under our inspections, they get removed from the register.

That is a mechanism Ireland is very practised at and one we encourage.