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Ciarán Byrne

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116 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

You'll get damp and the compensation and everything.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

Interstitial moisture, as the posh people call it, still moisture within.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

But what we're doing with the pilot, by the way, we've got over a quarter of a million traditional homes.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

So we're piloting out different archetypes and different materials and different technologies.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

So the idea of the pilot is to build it out, to have a standardised grant package for

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

for the likes of that homeowner.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

So right now it's engaging the pilot, but also not going, being very careful because depending on which advice you get, some people will happily insulate that and they'll disappear and you'll end up with a problem.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

So just be aware your walls are different and you need a different solution.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

I would think you'd probably be better off checking because there's no requirement for planning permission for solar panels on a roof for a standard home.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

We talked earlier on about a protected structure.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

I think you'd be better off pinging that one past local authority just to be sure.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

But you can get them out.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

I've seen them and we would have seen them mounted on a frame to the side of the house or whatever.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

That's reasonably common as well.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

And actually more coming on stream because the times are in where people are looking to different technologies and things like that.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

No, not necessarily.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

There's not.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

And we would talk very regularly to the industry.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

And sometimes they've been pitched up that you can either do new build or retrofit.

Today with David McCullagh
Deep retrofits and energy grants - SEAI Q&A

And that's not what we're seeing.