Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

There you go. The Minister of State must not have responded to the call. Anyway, he had a very good idea, which I think is fiscally neutral - I see the heads pop up - for large-scale retrofitting of houses with insulation, thus reducing CO2 emissions, saving energy and potentially creating jobs, on the basis of a loan scheme at reasonable interest rates. This would make up the gap between the grants that are available, which do not cover all the costs, and the rest of the cost, which people might not be able to pay upfront. Who should we go to with good ideas such as that, and how can we discuss and make progress on them?

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