Mr. Martin Keating:

The decarbonising project was initiated by the Department of housing and planning. In Mayo, for example, we did it as a competitive bid among our communities. We assisted them in making bids and got them to present their vision and how they would structure it, governance-wise and that, within their communities. We were overwhelmed by the response we got. Ten communities came forward and the outcome is we now have a network of communities in Mayo that want to decarbonise. We brought that back into the council chambers and got those communities to share their vision of decarbonising their communities over the next ten years. It demonstrated to the political system and to us as managers in local government that people have the ambition and it is important to them. That was a big breakthrough and needs to be continually worked on and fed through.