Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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103. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated percentage of housing stock here that is at the different BER ratings, for example, the percentage of the housing stock that is A1, A3, B1 and so on. [39299/16]

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), which comes within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and the Environment, is the statutory agency responsible for the implementation and management of the Building Energy Rating (BER) Scheme in accordance with Ireland’s obligations under the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (Recast). In accordance with these Regulations every new building is required to have a BER Certificate since 1 January 2007 and furthermore any existing dwelling, offered for sale or letting on or after 1 January 2009, also requires a Building Energy Rating (BER) certificate. Information and reporting in relation to the administration of the BER scheme is available on the SEAI website; the latest report, from 1 December 2016, is available at the following link: .

Furthermore, the SEAI also provide BER statistics to the Central Statistics Office (CSO) which, in turn publishes comprehensive quarterly bulletins which provide a more detailed breakdown of BER ratings according to the location of the property and the period that it was constructed. My Department understands that the CSO has published statistics that estimate the percentage of the housing stock that fall into different BER categories. Table 15 “BER Ratings Weighted to National Level” which is accessible at the link below sets out this information.

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