Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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There are 1.5 million homes that we are not talking about reaching at all in the retrofit scheme for the next ten years. Is there data to show that a significant majority of those have heat controls in there? The impression I have is that they do not and that the 1.5 million late movers, as it were, have very little in the way of management. What if we got them, the laggards, to be able to cut a quarter of their energy with a relatively cheap piece of technology? Would that not give us the time to do things like watch the technologies, go for the deeper stuff, see if electrification of the whole grid might mean that we put different priorities as we go along? It is much cheaper.