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

I hear the Deputy's concerns. They are reflected in fact that with an AHB or some similar multi-apartment model, it is a 50% grant, whereas if it is dealing with a commercial rental organisation, REIT or others, it is a 30% grant. I am not so certain about the risks. The benefit is that it will mean lower cost for the tenant. We have a real difficulty in the rental sector. Tenants do not have agency or control and they end up paying higher bills unless the building is retrofitted. I said earlier that we should leave no home behind. We need to leave no category behind. The rental property sector deserves the same capability of living in a cosy home apartment and that simply needs to be done. We can look at a variety of different ways of doing it, but I think it is appropriate to provide them with something similar, if smaller, but still grant-supported so that they are not excluded. Those renters deserve our attention in what is increasingly really comprehensive. I referred to us being world leading earlier. What we are doing on retrofitting is increasing seen as world leading.

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