Mr. Charles Stanley-Smith:

The BBC last week decided that because climate change is real, it no longer has to have climate change deniers on its programmes for balance. That is of great importance both for the committee and the wider world. The BBC has accepted that climate change is real. RTÉ should consider implementing a similar policy.

On retrofitting, fitting solar panels or heat pumps is quite a technical job. When my house was being renovated, there was a specific team to fit the solar panels and another to fit the heat pump. The level of training required to fit a heat pump is equivalent to that which people such as those referred to by Deputy Corcoran Kennedy already have. Obviously, they would have to be retrained but that is not a significant obstacle. There is a lot of work available in retrofits. A point that has not been mentioned is that we need approximately 100,000 retrofits a year in order to be able to achieve what our target. It is not currently being met and there is a huge opportunity for more people to get involved in doing retrofits and bring us to that target.