I am concerned at the delay in producing the national retrofitting plan or the retrofitting wave as it is called in Europe. Following the publication of the climate action plan, great interest has been aroused but the fact that people do not know the direction of travel on retrofitting is having a chilling effect. Applications for works are now being postponed. Can we see that retrofitting plan soon so that people can get started on what is a very important challenge for the next decade?

It is coming soon, within a number of weeks. It is critical because we want a lot of the money that we have saved, unwillingly in many ways, over the course of the pandemic to go into this. The provisions in the national retrofitting plan include a one-stop shop where people can get good advice, low-cost loans to assist those who have built up a deposit to bring down the cost of works, and the roll-out of apprenticeships through the work of the Minister, Deputy Harris, to make sure we have enough workers available. There are a variety of different aspects to the plan and it is almost ready to go. It is just a case of dotting the i's and crossing the t's and it will be published within a number of weeks.