John Brady (Wicklow, Sinn Fein)
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1134.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding sought and awarded to Wicklow County Council for retrofitting works for local authority homes for 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32621/24]

Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail)
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My Department supports local authorities with annual funding towards the management and maintenance of their social housing stock under a number of funding programmes including the Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Programme (EERP).

The Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme (EERP) aims to retrofit a local authority home to a BER of B2/Cost Optimal Equivalent. It is expected that 36,500 local authority owned homes will be retrofitted under this programme out to 2030.

Works eligible under my Department's revised EERP include attic/cavity wall insulation or external wall insulation where required, windows and doors replacement, heat pump installation and ancillary and associated works. The funded measures achieve the B2 or cost optimal equivalent (BER).

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/

Earlier this year, my Department announced that funding of €90 million will be provided for the upgrade of approximately 2,500 social homes in 2024. Each local authority received an individual allocation along with a minimum target of homes they are required to retrofit.

Work in relation to the 2024 programme is ongoing. Full details in relation to the 2024 Energy Efficiency Programme will be published on my Department’s website early in 2025.