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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: What are the number of retrofits completed under the warmer homes scheme and, separately, under the one-stop shop service? What are the measures the Minister will take to increase the roll-out and to better target supports to those most in need? Does he agree a dedicated retrofit scheme aimed at households that rely on solid fuels for heating is needed, and will he will make a statement on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: About €5 billion will come in the years 2028, 2029 and 2030. A significant problem with the funding model is that it is back-loaded to this degree. On those figures from the Minister, and we had them earlier from the Minister of State as well, how many of these completions have been done to a B2 or B2-equivalent standard? How many of them have been done to that standard simply...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I refer to being in line with the recommendations of the Climate Change Advisory Council, CCAC. For attic insulation and cavity walls-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: The recommendation from the CCAC, and others, including Friends of the Earth, I think, relates to a problem existing with accessing the small and flexible grants for individual works, such as attic and cavity wall insulation. There are financial barriers in this regard. Additionally, these are projects that can be rolled out very quickly, between now and the end of the year, to provide...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: No, it does not.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: She did not. That is not the case.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: No, that is not the case.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: No.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: The Sinn Féin position is in the motion the Minister just agreed to.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I refer to €25,000 for wealthy people-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: A pensioner couple will get €1,500-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: -----to get their attic insulated.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: He is not answering the question.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Conservation (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: It is for pensioners. That is who I am talking about.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: It is quite incredible that we have a situation whereby the Minister acknowledges the measures to which he referred are needed at this point in time but, in effect, he and the Government have been a barrier to those types of progressive reforms at a European level. Whatever the situation was in October 2021, I think it was clear at that stage, given the European toolbox had been published a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: What has the Minister been doing for the past year?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: The Minister is right. If I were him, I would not answer the question I was asked. I would not talk about how I and my Government stood in the way of progressive measures and proposals at a European level to address the fact gas is driving prices and this is, in essence, playing into the hands of Putin. Gas is driving the price of electricity. The Government and the Minister have resisted...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: We are proposing a cap and a windfall tax.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: The Minister's proposals will benefit people with holiday homes.

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank those who have contributed to this debate. It is notable that neither Fianna Fáil nor Fine Gael could present a speaker. Maybe they do not see the same problems that we do. Maybe they do not represent the same constituents that we do, namely, those who are struggling to access these schemes and to heat their homes this winter. I have to say in response to the Government...