Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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177. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when details of the 2023 retrofit scheme will issue to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45720/23]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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In 2021 a new holistic approach was applied to the Energy Efficient Retrofit Programme (EERP), designed around the Programme for Government's commitment led by the Department for the Environment, Climate and Communications that calls for the 'retrofit' of 500,000 homes to a B2 (BER)/Cost Optimal Equivalent standard by 2030, of which, approximately 36,500 are expected to be local authority owned homes, with grant funding provided by my Department for those local authority housing retrofits.

An annualised breakdown of the funding and number of properties completed by each local authority since 2013 is available at the following link:

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

In 2023, my Department announced that funding of €87 million is available for the retrofit of approximately 2,400 social homes. Local Authorities were notified of their target number of units to be retrofit earlier in the year and available funding. Work in relation to the programme is ongoing,