Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social homes that were retrofitted in 2021; the target that was set; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9721/22]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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The Energy Efficiency Programme for 2021 was the first year of a newly revised ten year programme designed to help deliver on the Programme for Government commitment to retrofitting 500,000 homes by 2030 to a B2/cost optimal BER standard. It is expected that approximately 36,500 of those will be local authority owned homes.

€65 million of Exchequer funding was made available to support this work in 2021, with €20 million allocated under the Midlands Retrofit Pilot as part of the 'Just Transition' programme, and the balance of €45 million under the 2021 Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme. A breakdown of the latter allocation along with the minimum target number of homes each local authority was required to retrofit is outlined in the table below.

The revised 2021 programme was designed to move local authorities from a 'shallow' to a 'deeper retrofit' programme, with the target of approximately 2,400 homes being upgraded, including 750 homes under the Midlands Retrofit Programme.

An annualised breakdown of the units retrofitted under the Energy Efficiency Retrofit programme for the years 2013-2021, is available on my Department's website at the following links.

www.gov.ie/en/publication/668c1-energy-efficiency-retrofitting-programme-expenditure-output/.

www.gov.ie/en/publication/b86b3-midlands-energy-retrofit-programme-expenditure-and-units/.