Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Money is still spent on the warmer homes side of the scheme from which local authority tenants would benefit. The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government does not work as well in this regard. Deputy Humphreys is right, however, that the pay-as-you-save model will be aimed at home owners by definition because they are the ones who must go for the product in the belief that over a set period they will be able to pay for the works done from the savings in the bill. It is a good concept.

I do not think Deputy Murphy is right. The existing scheme is broken down into different elements, one gets so much to do the attic or inject the walls. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle is an expert on this. He consults me frequently and there is not a home in east Galway that is not like a veritable nest, they are so warm.

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