Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I am going to stick with housing in the broad sense but change focus. I want to ask about local authority retrofit of social housing. My understanding of it is that the target the Department set is to retrofit all social homes by 2050. By implication, that means by 2049 there will still be some of our most vulnerable people living in cold houses with high energy prices, and not just cold houses but very often unhealthy houses or houses that produce air pollution or emissions, etc. We will have a huge issue in how we tackle the retrofit of rental properties, but considering the State, as a landlord, is setting itself a target of completing a retrofit programme by 2050 only, can we stand over that as a State? Have we any plans to accelerate that roll out? How are we planning the roll out? How are we prioritising and making sure we reach the furthest behind first?