Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Implementation of the New National Retrofit Plan: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland

Mr. William Walsh:

I might answer the Senator's last question and then hand back to Ms McCarthy. Our deep retrofit scheme was a pilot scheme we ran over two to three years. With that scheme we developed and piloted a model. We learned lessons from that scheme, which informed the one-stop shop. That scheme was to push homeowners to upgrade to an A2 BER. The pilot itself looked at people who could pay a significant amount of money to get that upgrade. The learnings from it have informed our one-stop shop programme and informed us with regard to the archetypes in the Irish system, that is, the types of houses, which are very different from many other countries in terms of the uniqueness of some of those houses. I will ask Dr. Byrne if he has anything further to add, then I might just-----