Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As the Deputy has indicated, we have 16 investment projects and nine reform measures. While my Department has the implementing body and the delivering committee which will monitor the implementation of the plan and will be responsible for all of the contact with the EU bodies, responsibility for implementing the individual measures will lie with the relevant Departments and bodies.

Looking across the range of projects, both the investment and the reform projects, many of them are very much live projects that are currently being developed. To take the area of retrofitting as an example, the Deputy mentioned the energy pathfinder project. Of even greater importance is the national retrofitting plan, which the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications will bring forward shortly. As the Deputy is aware, part of that, under component 1 in the advancing green transition section, is de-risking a low-cost residential retrofit loan scheme. It will be just one part of the national retrofitting plan and will involve improving the grants that are currently available to support homeowners who wish to retrofit their homes. That is just one project. I am happy to go through any of the individual reform projects and provide more information to the Deputy.

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