Scheme branded a 'failure' with just 89 homes retrofitted out of target of 62,500

SEAI estimates that the cost of a one-stop shop (OSS) deep home retrofit ranges from €12,600 to €79,000, with a reported average total cost figure of €29,000. Picture: Getty

The Government’s marquee retrofitting scheme “has utterly failed”, with just 89 homes in the entire country completed out of a “pie in the sky” target of 500,000 homes.

Despite a need to retrofit 62,500 homes this year to remain on target, just 681 homes have so far been approved, it can be revealed.