192. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether in view of the budgetary pressures, urgent savings should be made across the board in the public sector's estimated energy bill of €500 million per year, rather than continuing with voluntary and piecemeal projects; if so, if his Department will implement energy efficiency targets of 20% for the public sector over the next two years, instead of the 3% per annum efficiencies that the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland is currently working towards, thus saving €100 million a year in public expenditure; if he will assure Dáil Éireann that SEAI has sufficient resources to support all public sector bodies to achieve these savings by making cuts that do not hurt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50323/12]

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192. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether in view of the budgetary pressures, urgent savings should be made across the board in the public sector's estimated energy bill of €500 million per year, rather than continuing with voluntary and piecemeal projects; if so, if his Department will implement energy efficiency targets of 20% for the public sector over the next two years, instead of the 3% per annum efficiencies that the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland is currently working towards, thus saving €100 million a year in public expenditure; if he will assure Dáil Éireann that SEAI has sufficient resources to support all public sector bodies to achieve these savings by making cuts that do not hurt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50323/12]

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