Mr. Conor Skehan:

We will be a very boring set of witnesses because we will end up agreeing with everything the Deputies say. Exactly as Deputy Coppinger stated, we are targeting costs. We hope that by the time the committee’s work is finished, we will be able to give it elemental ranges for where the different parts come from and perhaps talk about targets for where we need to move with each of those components. It will only work if we have an integrated solution across several branches of government. As the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government said this morning, not all the levers are in that Department's hand. On our "12 to do" list, we have given the committee a set of recommendations that the Dáil could legislate or regulate for, encourage, budget for or fund in order to get there but they are spread across a wide range of Departments, just as the consequences of getting it wrong are spread across the whole economy.