Róisín Garvey (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The Minister is not getting off too lightly, unfortunately. When local authorities take over houses from private landlords under the HAP scheme, the standard is often a C3 building energy rating, BER. If the landlord does not live in the house, it may kind of be left up to the tenant to deal with that standard. With the cost-rental model, we should look at best practice regarding BERs in order that tenants will not have significant outgoings to heat their houses. If we are building new houses, they should all have air-to-water or fossil-fuel-free systems since we are now in 2021 and that is the way forward.