Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I know that. It is something I kept an eye on because an allocation was made involving possibly 30 houses to one local authority. It was not earth-shattering but it was nonetheless important. The deep retrofit proposals regarding those houses were about €10,000 less than the actual cost of doing the work. Obviously, inflation has kicked in and we can see the difference between what it costs to do it one year and what it costs the next. Does the authority advise the Department about what the cost of a deep retrofit is? If you give a local authority €50,000 per house and it is €10,000 short and the local authority cannot make that shortfall up, effectively the thing does not get rolled out. Where is the expertise regarding costs and inflation? That is a growing amount at a time where there is scaling up and you would expect that there would be some efficiencies regarding scaling up. Does the SEAI have any input into what it costs?