Mr. David Hegarty:

The figures that the Deputy mentioned are quite stark. In terms of what we are doing, I shall mention a couple of things. First, we have developed a tool called the climate toolkit for business, which is openly available on our website. The toolkit was developed jointly by my Department and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. It was designed to help firms to start their decarbonisation journey. All a firm must do is type in key information on the level of its energy bills, travel costs, mileage and things like that. The toolkit simply calculates following the input of key information and the toolkit will point firms to a range of supports that might available to them in order for them to take action, on foot of the diagnosis.

A range of supports are available and some by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. My Department, as part of the national recovery and resilience plan, has a green transition fund that is backed by €55 million of EU funding.