Dr. Niall Muldoon:

From our point of view, there is a commitment on all public services to look at the climate impact that they have through their offices and the work that they do so that is why we would have engaged in that. I do not have the budget figures involved but they would have been minor. A small amount of money would have been spent in that regard. We continuously analyse our own impact as an office, which is what we report on and it is a statutory obligation to report that in our annual report. I do not think that we in any way diverted important funding away from the core work that we do in that regard.

On neutrality as regards issues, we are a public office and our office is run by the OPW. We offer our office to be available to any organisation that deals with and works with children. Lots of organisations use our office at various different times.