Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Chair and our colleagues for facilitating us and I thank the witnesses for the informative presentations. It is great to see a sea of work under way in this area. It is important and is a key pillar of our programme for Government. I will tee off with some key questions for each of the witnesses. Starting with Dr. Byrne, regarding the BER reclassification, this is being done to bring it in line with European standards. Is this going to be problematic in a context where members of the public are still getting used to the concept of BERs? I ask Dr. Byrne to expand on this point. When he refers to the reclassification of BER, what does he mean?