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

The Deputy should do a bit more homework than just one article because articles can get things wrong from time to time. My understanding is that the article in today's Irish Examinerthat was critical of the level of delivery against our national retrofit targets incorrectly referred to a target of 62,500 retrofits in 2022 when the actual target was 27,000. The latest projections from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, indicate that we are on track to achieve our target of 27,000 home energy upgrades this year. This compares to 15,500 upgrades last year. Of course, we need to ramp up delivery significantly in the coming years to an average of 75,000 B2-equivalent home upgrades per year from 2026 to 2030. The national retrofit plan is our roadmap to doing this. The article refers to just 89 homes being completed. This figure relates to output under just one of the SEAI schemes, which was only launched in February of this year and which is currently in the start-up stage. The reality is that demand and delivery across the range of SEAI retrofit schemes has been exceptionally high this year.

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