Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Can I just say something on that? I do not know whether my thinking is correct here but if one is generating one's own electricity and one's own energy through solar, even if one is wasting some of it because one's home has a B or C BER, from an emissions perspective that does not matter. One is generating one's own electricity while not adding to our carbon emissions. In that context, is our focus wrong? Should we not be saying to people that they can generate their own emissions-free solar energy, greatly reduce their energy costs and do so more quickly and more cheaply? If it is cheaper for the State to help them to do that, should that not be our focus?