Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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1142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question of 16 July 2025, the number of social homes retrofitted to date; the average cost to retrofit to a b2 BER rating or higher; the proportion that have been retrofitted to a BER b2 rating or higher only (details supplied); the average pre and post BER of a retrofitted social home in each of the years 2020 to date; in tabular form. [45081/25]

Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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1143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of the pre and post BER rating of social homes retrofitted in each of the years 2020 to 2025 to date in tabular form. [45082/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1142 and 1143 together.

In 2021 a new holistic approach was applied to the Local Authority Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme (EERP). This was designed around the Programme for Government's commitment to retrofit 500,000 homes to a minimum B2 BER standard by 2030, implementation of which is led by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. My Department is supporting implementation by seeking to ensure that approximately 36,500 are local authority homes. 

Each year the target number of units and funding provided under the EERP are subject to the funding availability as part of the National Development Plan and annual Estimates process. The 2025 EERP budget is providing funding support of €90 million to retrofit 2,500 properties.

An annualised breakdown of the units retrofitted from the years 2013 – 2024 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/

Under this EERP programme, my Department funds costs of up to €48,850 plus project management fees, on individual local authority homes. The programme has been devised in a way to give local authorities a level of flexibility when selecting properties to retrofit, ranging from those requiring minor levels of works to properties needing the maximum level of retrofitting required to bring them to a B2 standard. The actual cost of retrofitting works on each home will depend on its pre-works BER.  Local authorities are asked to ensure that the average cost per home drawn down under the programme is circa €36,500, including project management fees. Adhering to this average will ensure that the maximum number of homes can be retrofitted with the available budget. For 2024, the average cost per property was circa €34,000.

The table below details the number of units and the average cost recouped to local authorities across various pre works BERs over the period 2021 to 2024.