Written answers
Tuesday, 26 April 2022
Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government
Environmental Schemes
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing retrofits by local authority per year from 2016 to 2021; the average cost of the retrofit per home in each county for each year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19473/22]
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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684. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authority homes that received an energy retrofit in 2021 by local authority; the average cost per unit in each local authority for the retrofit; and the average contribution from his Department per unit in each local authority for the retrofit in tabular form. [20869/22]
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 615 and 684 together.
My Department launched the Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme (EERP) in 2013 with the aim of funding the retrofit of social homes requiring insulation and energy upgrade works. Since the programme commenced in 2013 up to the end of 2021 over 75,000 units of social housing stock have been retrofitted with a total exchequer spend of €183 million under the scheme.
Up to 2020, the EERP was carried out in two Phases:
- Phase 1of the programme provided funding targeted at the less intrusive cavity wall/attic insulation
- Phase 2focused on fabric upgrade works to those dwellings with solid/hollow block wall construction and included the provision of heating upgrades.
The Phase 1 and Phase 2 approach to retrofitting is now withdrawn with the introduction in 2021 of a 'deeper' retrofit programme designed around the Programme for Government commitment that calls for the 'retrofit' of 500,000 homes to a B2/Cost Optimal Equivalent (BER) standard by 2030, of which, approximately 36,500 are expected to be local authority owned homes.
Works eligible under the revised Programme include attic/cavity wall insulation or external wall insulation where required, windows and doors replacement, heat pump installation and ancillary and associated works.
Statistics in relation to this programme are published and available at the below link:
www.gov.ie/en/publication/668c1-energy-efficiency-retrofitting-programme-expenditure-output/.
My Department also introduced a pilot Midlands Energy Retrofit Programme 2020-2022, the details of which are found below. This programme allowed for a further 146 properties to be deep retrofit in 2021 in addition to the National Retrofit Programme.
gov.ie - Midlands Energy Retrofit Programme - Expenditure and Units (www.gov.ie).
In 2022, the EERP will see a significant increase in funding support to €85 million, allowing approximately 2,400 homes nationally to be upgraded to a B2 or cost optimal equivalent (BER). Allocations have issued in this regard.
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