Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. As he mentioned, we have ambitious plans to retrofit as many as 500,000 homes between now and 2030. This will be hard to do, particularly at a time when we need to build hundreds of thousands of new homes as well, but we are determined to press on with both objectives.

I am not as up to date on the issue as maybe I should be, but I know some work is being done on a loan scheme for people on middle incomes and people who do not qualify for the means-tested payments. People could use the savings that arise from retrofitting and reduced energy costs to pay off the loan. As I said, work on that scheme is under way at the moment.

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