Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps we should see to that gap. As for community initiatives generally, it seems to me that shared vehicles and, as we have discussed, EV chargers for people who do not have access to them are the coming piece of community initiative. Have the witnesses started to shape a framework for that? It would make such a difference to the way we plan our cities and so on if, outside apartment blocks, instead of one vehicle for every block, people had shared access to a pool of vehicles. Are the witnesses starting on that? Would they consider something like a bronze, silver and gold system for the sustainable energy communities, SECs, to put a little pressure on them to aspire beyond bronze level to gold and to demonstrate their impact on climate change?

My last question relates to the community fund. Dr. Byrne mentioned that it was €750 million. Are the witnesses developing a framework for that? That is a very powerful tool that could either retard or accelerate climate change. Have the witnesses started to create a framework as to what that should look like in order that the funding does not just get handed out willy-nilly to projects that are not relevant to the overall effort?