Mr. Simon Shevlin:

I joined the Department in August 2023 and I attended two Government energy poverty action plan meetings, one on 21 September and one on 11 December. I have also had several meetings with the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications regarding the actions in the plan. The committee will be aware that Department is entering consultations this week for an eight-week period on the action plan. We have fed into that with questions on the communications piece and the action plan.