Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I raise the crazy system of the retrofitting scheme the Government has introduced. When will the Government realise it is not working and will not work because it excludes a large number of households? One example is stone-built houses that were constructed in 1965 or earlier. These homes could really do with deep retrofits but we are told that they do not qualify. Such homes are usually lived in by elderly people, parents or grandparents, who have stayed in the family home all their lives. They heat their homes with turf and timber and are now being told that they cannot do so. The Government devised a scheme suited to those with the greatest means, not those in greatest need. Homeowners such as those I mention, as well as people living in energy poverty and in greatest need of help, are being left behind by the scheme.

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