Mr. David Hegarty:

We have done some analysis on where the emissions arise. In the manufacturing sector, they are actually quite concentrated. The cement sector would account for about 40% of emissions in the manufacturing sector. There would also be high levels of emissions in sectors such as food and drink and also parts of the chemical sector. We have done some analysis of that.

What we have to do, and we are working on this, is prioritise the sectors with the highest level of emissions. Obviously, that makes sense because we have limited resources. For example, we are doing some work in the area of cement. We have a working group which is looking at that. We bring together all the relevant Department - the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and our own and our own agencies and look at public procurement. Obviously the State is a big purchaser of construction materials and construction sector output and we are looking to set a standard there that would have to be used in the case of public projects. We are doing some work on that. I have to admit that we do need some consultancy support on that as well.

On the administrative officer competition I mentioned earlier, to be clear, it was advertised by the Department of the environment but in discussions we understand it is open to other Departments taking administrative officers from it. That is something that we are going to explore ourselves.