Mr. Mark Griffin:

I saw no impediment with regard to the ambition within the organisation nor with regard to staffing over the past couple of years because we have increased it very significantly. I saw no impediment in the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, because it has increased its ambition significantly. We have a clear line of sight on our spend out to 2030 and we know what the annual allocations will be. It is very difficult to manage the sort of stop-start situation that occurs when faced with Covid. Bear in mind that in some of the programmes, such as the warmer homes programme, one is dealing with a very vulnerable cohort, many of whom are elderly people. Even though it was halted from January to mid-April, it was probably some period after that before we could get back on track.