Ms Oonagh Buckley:

I think C3 is the global estimate but Irish housing stock is very poor in terms of heat management. It is 7% less efficient than the EU norms. We also have an unusual type of housing stock in this country in the sense that we have an awful lot of one-off rural homes that are heated by oil or gas cylinders and are poorly insulated, whereas in many other EU states, they would have big apartment blocks that are already on district heating schemes and so forth. We have a peculiar challenge in this country, which is why we are investing so much in the SEAI to drive its agenda. What the SEAI and what we are trying to do in this country is relatively unique in the world, never mind in Europe. It is an enormously ambitious target we are trying to deliver on and it is great that we have an effective organisation to do it.