Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----and that is what the plan we are publishing today will do. Today's Government decisions are significant. They represent a very significant ramping up of the retrofitting agenda.

Deputy Devlin raised the issues of attic insulation and cavity walls, for which the grants are to be up to 80%. There will be a significant take-up. We will facilitate people to proceed on a phased basis. The grants are far more generous than any we have had before. Deputy Boyd Barrett should note it would not be feasible to announce that the State, on its own, would do every single house in the country; it is just not going to happen. That is not a real-world possibility.

See this speech in context