Mr. Brian Carroll:

If the Deputy goes through the targets, it is as the Comptroller and Auditor General reported. There will be a shortfall in terms of our emissions target to 2020. We are expected to reduce our emissions by 5% to 6% relative to the target set. In terms of renewable energy, as reported by the Comptroller and Auditor General, we had a 16% target for renewable energy. We will hit 13% on that. If that is broken down as a 40% target for renewable electricity, we have made very strong progress on renewable electricity and may get close to the 40%.

On transport, it was a 10% target. We are predicting we will hit 9% out of the 10%. The area that is most problematic is the renewable heat component of the target. Our disbursed settlement pattern and the associated challenges with that is probably the reason we are finding it more difficult on the renewable heat target. There are ambitious targets in the climate action plan to retrofit 500,000 houses by 2030 and to install 400,000 heat pumps, which is a technology that is suitable for disbursed settlement patterns and in shifting them towards renewable heat.