Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)

As a Minister of State with responsibility for housing, Deputy Cummins needs to put as much of his concern towards renters who are stuck in these cold, draughty homes as he is towards landlords. A challenge of this scale will only be addressed if a plan is actually in place. I am concerned that the Minister of State does not seem to have any sort of date or timeline for the delivery. I am also concerned about his use of the term "under active review". Will he clarify that the Department at least still plans to bring forward a roadmap on retrofitting? Maybe the Minister of State cannot give me a date today, but is he still going to undertake this roadmap? Having that roadmap would allow the Government to plan the scale of investment that is necessary. This will take a lot of money. The previous Government put aside large amounts of money in the climate fund to deal with climate measures - this sort of measure - but, of course, the Government has now raided that fund and it is gone. By not having a plan in place, the Minister of State lost the opportunity to bid to fund this scale of retrofitting.

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