More than 40% of Irish households have no plans to retrofit 

Some 40% of Irish homewowners had declared no interest in making changes to their home’s properties or layout, with barriers towards uptake listed as the high costs of any such work, the disruption of doing so, and other “behavioural barriers”.

Ireland remains “significantly” behind its 2030 targets for the retrofitting and energy-optimisation of households, with more than 40% of owners showing no interest in changing their homes.

New figures from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) show that just 11.5% of the targeted levels of deep retrofits on Irish properties had been carried out by the end of 2024. Heat pump installations were even further adrift, with just 3.5% of target completions having been achieved at the same date.