Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I do not have the schemes here in front of me but I will endeavour to get the figures and share them with the Deputy. There is a whole range of initiatives happening. In the coming weeks, we will start the building out of the solar panels that we are going to put on top of every single school roof in the country. We have already introduced schemes for the most vulnerable, particularly those using medical devices who have a consistent requirement to be using electricity in their homes, and provided for that. We will be introducing new low-cost loans that will help householders to access and avail of retrofitting grants.

I will make this point. When I was at the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications yesterday to discuss a Supplementary Estimate, I explained why we are shifting money into the faster roll-out of the national broadband plan. There was not any indication in that of a lack of commitment to retrofitting, or a lack of success in that. Just as in solar PV, the number of houses being retrofitted is ahead of target.

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