Mr. Eamonn Confrey:

We are certainly supportive of higher EU ambition.

We certainly need to do it cost effectively. We are not yet at the point where we have outlying higher targets on the table. In December, by way of a general approach, the energy council signed off on at least 27% on renewables. All the expectations are that is going to go higher. In respect of energy efficiency it will be at 30%. We are inching towards the June council where I expect Ministers will be asked to agree on the overall package. However, as I said, we are broadly supportive of the EU ambition across the clean energy perspective. We need to see that Ireland can achieve its contribution to what will be an EU-wide target and that it can be done cost effectively. The work that Mr. Carroll mentioned earlier in respect of both the TRAM analysis, and indeed the SEAI modelling that is under way, will inform the policies and measures that we as a collective are going to have to put together as part of the first national energy and climate plan. I ask Ms Minch to comment on the built environment and the public sector.