Ms Oonagh Buckley:

What is different now is that the Department has been resourced to push this issue of energy efficiency in buildings. We have an assistant secretary, Mr. Quinlan, and a full division of the Department working on that. Mr. Quinlan is chairing a task force, as he said, about built efficiency. He is also sitting now on the group that is pushing the Dublin district heating scheme. We have made a long-standing pledge of €20 million from the climate action fund towards delivering that. We are engaged in discussions with Dublin City Council as to whether additional funding needs to be made available from within our funding arrangements and, in particular, perhaps under the national development plan, NDP. We will be putting a proposal to the Minister in the coming days in that space.