Ms Catherine Devitt:

I acknowledge Deputy Bruton's point about scaling up and ensuring that the necessary resources are there. It is worth pointing out that within the NECP process, for example, member states are required to provide detailed information on the level of investments, public and private, that are needed and the level of resources that are needed to scale up in particular sectors. The feedback from the Commission has highlighted that that level of detail on investments, measures and scalability is missing. In order to address some of the challenges that the Deputy raised, we need to start or the detail needs to be there on bringing it back to the modelling as to what is the level of resources that are needed, how do we scale up and what is the level of investments, finance and skills needed to address these gaps. That needs to be in the final NECP.