The great green homes gamble: can we retrofit 500,000 houses in just ten years?

The €8 billion home retrofitting plan unveiled by Eamon Ryan last week seems almost too big to fail, but will it overcome the ‘hassle factor’ in the public’s minds?

Stephen O’Connor managing director of Electric Ireland with Martin O’Reilly from Greenwatt, one of the approved contractors. Picture: Laurence McMahon