Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To add to that, the Chair had a specific question around accounting. As he is probably aware, the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications are looking to put together a business case to set up a specific unit within the SEAI to deal with that under the energy performance of buildings directive. That particular point is currently being worked on by both Departments and we will be coming up with a business case. As the Chair said, it is very difficult to quantify without empirical evidence and that will now be happening.