Dr. Karina Doorley:

The report in question used data from the CSO's household budget survey. The latest collection of that was 2015 and 2016. There was due to be another collection in 2020 but obviously there was a pandemic and the CSO decided to suspend collection. If I am not mistaken, the next iteration of that survey should be in the field. Until we see that data, we are using old data to predict things like energy poverty. We are doing what we can with it but obviously expenditure patterns have differed over the past couple of years because of the move towards renewable energy and people retrofitting their houses. The data in the 2015 and 2016 household budget survey will be a bit different to the expenditure shares we would see currently, particularly with things like fuel. It is a matter of getting up-to-date data.