Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 261: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress his Department has made in achieving this 33% target of energy efficiency in the public sector; if energy use in buildings under the responsibility of his Department is being monitored; if so, the person by whom it is monitored; the recent trends; if buildings under the responsibility of his Department are being retrofitted to improve energy efficiency; if there are capital budgets for energy efficiency measures in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13123/08]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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I agree with the proposal in the Programme for Government that the Government will require the public sector to lead the way on energy efficiency with a mandatory programme of efficiency measures, including the sole use of energy efficient lighting and heating in offices schools and hospitals and other public buildings, to produce 33% energy savings by 2020. I look forward to my Department, its Offices and the State Agencies that come under the aegis of the Department being able to make their contributions to achieving that target in any mandatory programme devised for the public sector by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and the Office of Public Works, all of whom will have the main responsibility for implementing the proposal in the Programme for Government.