Dr. Muireann Lynch:

On the employment impacts and the impacts on businesses in general of increasing energy costs, unfortunately we are very limited as to the data available. I am not sure what the Deputy is going to get from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment but it is quite difficult to estimate the impacts of those. An awful lot of the time there is very little one can do in the short term to deal with increasing energy costs, whether for a household or a business. Dr. McQuinn might want to say something on skills.