Mr. Ciar?n Nugent:

I will make a short comment on that. It might be a bit outside of the scope of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare but this is an argument for us tackling climate issues, especially the retrofitting of the social housing stock. Instead of that being a cost every year going forward, you front-end that and invest in upgrading old stock, which a disproportionate number of social welfare recipients will be living in. Especially with the Ukraine war and something similar continuing, and we are still at 8% inflation, that is an argument for State intervention into improving the building stock in Ireland.