Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Empowering Local Government and Local Communities to Climate Action: Discussion

Mr. Robert Deegan:

Heating controls still have a €700 grant as an individual measure. There is support for that as well. The bigger picture is a gradual move towards the deeper measures, as Mr. O'Mahony said, but we are not leaving people out who can only afford to do shallow measures or who are taking a step-by-step approach towards achieving a deeper retrofit. What householders experience as a consequence of shallow measures can encourage them to take the next step and move on to deeper measures. There is a sort of parallel approach but the most important thing is that households of all income levels, including people on social welfare through the warmer homes scheme, have appropriate options available to them for retrofitting their homes.