Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
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1077. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the retrofitting programme for local authority housing in Cork city and county, particularly in older estates in Cork North-Central; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59019/25]

Eoghan Kenny (Cork North-Central, Labour)
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1078. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if funding will be made available to Cork City Council for retrofitting older housing estates in Cork north central as part of the Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59022/25]

James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 1077 and 1078 together.

The 2025 Energy Efficiency Retrofit budget provides €90 million to local authorities to support the retrofit of approximately 2,500 properties this year. It is expected, over the lifetime of the programme (2021 to 2030) 36,500 local authority owned homes will be retrofitted.

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 BER rating.

From 2013 - 2024, my Department has supported Cork City in the retrofit of 7,614 properties with funding of just over €31m, with Cork County retrofitting 6,312 properties with funding support in excess of €28m. Further breakdown of delivery can be found on my Department’s website at the following link: www.gov.ie/en/publication/668c1-energy-efficiency-retrofitting-programme-expenditure-output/

As part of the 2025 process Cork City Council were provided an allocation of circa €4 million which will support the retrofit of a minimum of 116 properties, with Cork County Council allocated €5.9 million to retrofit a minimum of 169 properties with the selection of homes for inclusion in the programme and prioritisation of works a matter for each individual local authority.

Both local authorities are on track to achieve their targets.