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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, March 13, 2023

QUESTION NO.4

QUESTION: Councillor Carly Bailey

To ask the CE to confirm the number of outstanding Local Authority owned residential homes yet to be retrofitted to a B rating, based on current funding mechanisms how long it is estimated it will take to complete same.

REPLY:

The Council has BER data for approximately 50% of our housing stock and based on this information and profiling the age of our housing stock, it is estimated that 85% of our current housing stock has a Building Energy Rating (BER) of C or lower.

The Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (DHLGH) launched the Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme in 2021 with a national target to 'retrofit' 36,500 local authority homes to the B2 BER (or cost optimal equivalent by 2030.  While this did not specific allocations for each local authority, it is estimated on a pro-rata basis that this could include up to 2,500 homes in this Council’s housing stock.

The current average grant available per property is €36,000 and since the launch of the programme, funding approval has been received from DHLGH for retrofit works to 263 properties in South Dublin.  Works are ongoing or completed for 236 properties to date with a further 80 properties to go to tender by the end of March 2023 and an additional 100 properties assigned to obligated parties for pre-works surveys.  While DLGH have not yet confirm our allocation for the 2023 programme and subsequent years, our Planned Maintenance Section are continuing to progress plans for an expansion of the programme but without confirmation of funding for a multi-annual programme, it is not possible currently to provide an estimated delivery programme of works.