Mr. Sean Martin:

Due to the time constraints, it is probably difficult to put a transaction fee on each of the services we offer. Mr. O'Hara stated that we can do something relating to the green agenda, and I hope the committee would endorse that. It relates to being a conduit for retrofitting nationally. We are a trusted organisation. If a person asks us to send a trusted person to look at his or her house to see what he or she can do in respect of retrofitting it and upgrading the insulation, we can do that. We believe we are well placed to do it. We could then set in motion the person to actually deliver that service. It is difficult to put a price on that, however, because of the amount of time and effort that may be involved. That is why we are kind of saying it needs to be a whole-of-government approach. It cannot be a case of an individual Department giving us €1 million from its budget because it thinks we can offer a particular service. The Government as a whole has to say that this is value for money and an important national asset that we have to ensure survives not for the next three, four or five years, but for the next 100 years. We have been there for the past 100 years and I think we have something to offer for the next 100 years.