Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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119.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made at rolling out ‘one-stop shops’, as outlined in the 2022 SEAI report; if he can provide any empirical measures of their impact on uptake of supports and retrofitting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33450/24]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The National Retrofit Plan sets out the Government's approach to achieving the Climate Action Plan targets of upgrading the equivalent of 500,000 homes to a Building Energy Rating (BER) of B2/cost optimal level and installing 400,000 heat pumps to replace older, less efficient heating systems by 2030.

In February 2022, Government announced an enhanced package of measures to support the uptake of home energy upgrades. This included the introduction of a new National Home Energy Upgrade Scheme and the establishment of a network of registered One Stop Shops to offer a start-to-finish project management service for home energy upgrades.

There are now 20 One Stop Shops registered by SEAI, two of which were registered earlier this year. SEAI continue to actively engage with the construction sector this year, with the aim of attracting more companies to register as a One Stop Shops. A number of companies are already in the process of registering as one-stop-shops and SEAI are guiding them through the registration process, with the expectation that by year end the number of registered One-Stop-Shops will have increased to 25.

Figures from SEAI show that, since the scheme launched, 2,505 energy upgrades have been completed by One Stop Shops and 6,224 Home Energy Assessments have been carried out. A further 892 projects are active but not yet completed. Total grant spend on the upgrades is €48 million and the median grant per upgrade for a privately owned dwelling is is €22,500. The average improvement for a project is to go from a E1 to an A2. The most popular measures installed are heat pump (2,402 completed projects, or 96% of the total), followed by windows (2,183) and doors (2,091).

The One Stop Shops are distributed across Ireland, with eleven offering services nationwide through their network of contractors throughout the country and nine working within geographic regions. Details of the registered One Stop Shops, including their contact details, are available on the SEAI website at: .

My Department is working with SEAI to build the required capacity across the range of residential and community energy efficiency schemes, including the National Home Energy Upgrade Scheme, to deliver, on average, approximately 75,000 B2-equivalent home upgrades per year from 2026 to 2030 to achieve the overall target of 500,000 by 2030. A significant number of these upgrades will be through One-Stop-Shops.