Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Energy Poverty: Discussion
Ms Clare O'Connor:
Data collection will be a really important part of the retrofitting scheme going forward, particularly for the energy poverty retrofitting schemes. It will be really important that we know by how much energy poverty has reduced, but we do not currently have an effective definition of "energy poverty", so that is one thing we need to work on as soon as possible. The energy poverty steering group has been set up as part of the energy poverty action plan. Part of its work will be setting a definition of "energy poverty". We have a concern that currently no civil society or NGO is represented on that steering group. It is important that they are part of that conversation on defining energy poverty. Also-----