Energy efficiency: Just 19 firms signed up for scheme to retrofit up to 70,000 homes

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland did admit that global supply chain issues were also having an impact on materials.

Just 20 firms retrofitting around 500 homes annually will be registered as "one-stop shops" for the national energy efficiency programme by the end of this year, despite ambitious targets to do 70,000 homes by 2026.

The Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), tasked with overseeing the mass environmental transformation of buildings to become more energy-efficient, admitted that the plans were "ambitious" but insisted they were achievable.