{"id":251148,"date":"2026-01-18T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251148\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T13:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:20:13","slug":"higher-retrofit-grants-to-include-80pc-subsidy-for-heat-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251148\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher retrofit grants to include 80pc subsidy for heat pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">State to cover 40pc of cost of windows and doors in semi-detached homes\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Minister Darragh O'Brien. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IRISH US  1547.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Minister Darragh O&#8217;Brien. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Homeowners could be about to benefit from thousands of euro being made available for energy upgrades to private homes, under new plans that are expected to announced by Minister for Climate, Environment, Energy and Transport Darragh O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Under provisional plans, home owners are expected to be able to claim attic insulation costs of \u20ac1,800. Attic insulations grants are currently capped at \u20ac1,500 for detached homes, or lower for other properties. So, the new grant payment will be an increase of \u20ac300 for these houses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State to cover 40pc of cost of windows and doors in semi-detached homes Minister Darragh O&#8217;Brien. Photo: PA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,25746,61,60,6083],"class_list":["post-251148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-darragh-obrien","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-niamh-horan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}