Ms Justina Corcoran:

On dialogue, we engage with communities annually in advance of each climate action plan. Last year, we had conversations at PPN level across 16 PPNs. This year we will do it across 31 over the next month or so. All the information we collect from those conversations is compiled and fed into the development of the plan. We make sure anyone who holds the pen on the chapters has all that information to hand. One of the outcomes of the conversations last year was the €60 million fund for the local and community sector to build low-carbon communities. Some of that fund has been set aside to build capacity in those communities so they are all able to start on a level playing field. That will be routed through local authorities who will work in partnership with the communities to deliver those low-carbon communities. We hope to build on that year by year to get more engagement with the communities, find out what they want to do and are able to do and what supports they need to deliver that. We will feed that back to the policy areas, including SEAI and the EPA. They all sit on the working group. It is to keep that flow of information in and out of the system.