Mr. David Dodd:

I will respond to the one-stop-shop element. Other colleagues might like to comment on the former point. Under the national retrofit plan, there are plans for a one-stop shop and I understand a number of them have already registered with the SEAI.

That would be private householders on the local authority side in terms of retrofitting. We are reliant on funding from central government for social housing etc., but the Deputy raised a good point. There is an opportunity to have better models to meet the ambitious target of retrofitting the number of houses that require it. We need to go into an area and deal with social houses and privately owned houses together rather than separately to get better bang for our buck from the Exchange and to do the work, for example, on a row of terraced houses as opposed to one or two along a road. There is an opportunity to have public private partnership but the one-stop-shop model is in place through the national retrofit plan being managed through the SEAI.