John Curran (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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1514. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes in each local authority that have availed of the free energy efficiency improvement scheme in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19812/19]

Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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1529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes upgraded as part of all energy efficiency upgrades in each of the past five years; the amount provided to each local authority area in each of the past five years; if he is satisfied that targets in the National Development Plan will be achieved to upgrade up to one million homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18738/19]

Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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1530. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes that have had their heating controls upgraded as part of all energy efficiency upgrades in each of the past five years; the amount provided across each local authority area in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18739/19]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1514, 1529 and 1530 together.

My Department's responsibility in relation to energy efficiency upgrades to the housing stock is focused on social housing, reflecting its responsibilities in relation to funding for social housing programmes. In that context, my Department provides exchequer funding for a programme of energy efficiency/insulation retrofitting to improve the insulation standards and overall energy performance of local authority social housing stock. The programme was launched in 2013 and is being implemented in two phases: Phase 1 provides funding targeted at the less intrusive cavity wall/attic insulation, while Phase 2 focuses on the fabric upgrade works to dwellings with solid/hollow block wall construction and includes the provision of heating upgrades. Consequently, the amounts allocated annually to local authorities reflect the implementation of the programme across the different phases.

Since the programme of support from my Department commenced, over 68,000 social homes have been insulation retrofitted, with a total exchequer spend of €128 million. The following is a breakdown, by local authority, of the funding drawn down and the number of social housing homes retrofitted under the Programme between 2013 and 2018:

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