Dr. Ciaran Byrne:

The reality is that the contractors are choosing them all. Looking at the sector, there is a relatively small pool of contractors. On the warmer homes scheme, there is some overlap but not that much. Certainly, on the individual measures and the one-stop shop, the contractors are working to both schemes. The top ten or 15 contractors are across all schemes. In fairness, putting myself into a businessman's shoes, they do not tend to want to put all their eggs into one basket. They are not fully and completely on one scheme or the other, they are doing a bit of everything. The contractors working for us on the one-stop shops are also doing work for the local authorities on some of their schemes, etc. There is some overlap, but not a significant overlap, on the warmer homes scheme. Some of them have specialised in that. The reason we got 36 companies is that we are expecting contractors to be nationwide to and to cover all measures. Looking at the larger contractor body on the individual measures grants, many of those contractors will specialise in one or maybe two measures. The warmer homes scheme effectively requires them to be able to do everything and more. For example, we added solar PV to the scheme in the last tender, so they have to build that into it.