Charlie Weston
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We're likely to get increases.
There's a general cost of leaving the issue here.
And so if you're lucky enough to be able to afford to borrow, if you can manage it on top of mortgage payments, you may have car repayments.
If you can take on some debt as well,
And you can get it at a low rate and a grant.
People are saying, well, maybe now is the time to do it.
So it is kind of, I think it's forcing the issue for a lot of people at the moment, Clare.
Yeah, Simon Hannars, the Tarnished and Minister for Finance, kind of threw the cat among the pigeons when he mentioned that there may be...
more grant aid for solar panels and heat pumps, and really that has caused some people to pause.
It seems to me not a wise thing to do, to be saying something before you actually announce it and give it a date for it.
To be musing about that just seems to have made some people hold back.
As Kevin says, if we want to get this done before the winter, now is the time to do it.
It could be a while before the government decides on what to do.
There's a hell of a lot of demands on government money.
There's nothing specific.
There is increased grants.
640 million was allocated in the last budget for retrofits.
There are higher grants.
So, look, if you're thinking of doing it, do it, particularly if you have an oil-fired home.
I think that's a bit of a no-brainer.