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Thank you for that. It is good to hear the perspective from Shetland, with its high wind speeds and higher costs.

We move on to the just transition, which Elena Whitham will ask about.

Are you aware of any other EnerPHit projects that are tackling other types of housing stock in Scotland? It is not just about tenements, because there will be other housing stock.

Thank you for that stark reality check, Bryan.

The next and final theme is infrastructure, which is fitting. We will spend about five minutes on that and, if the witnesses need to tuck something into their responses because they were not able to come in earlier, they are welcome to do so.

I believe that we have lost Elizabeth Leighton for the moment, so I will ask another question, staying with Lori McElroy. I am curious to know what you think about private financing. Will that be required to roll out retrofitting on a national scale?

I have another question for Lori McElroy, and perhaps Stephen Good can also answer it while we wait for Elizabeth Leighton to come back in. Given the relatively high up-front costs of some retrofitting measures, which have long payback periods, do you believe that the financial support that is currently in place is adequate? If not, what further support is required? We have touched on that already, but the missing piece is what we need to signal for things to move—to get the ducks in a row, as you said. What should we be doing?

Thank you for pointing that out.

My next question, which is on energy efficiency, is also for Chris Morgan. What type of energy efficiency and low-carbon heating measures are involved in the retrofit, and have you faced any technical challenges in designing and installing them?

I am curious about the insulating materials that we saw on the back of the building. It is covered in a thick insulating material; I cannot remember what it is called. Is it wood fibre?

Mark Griffin, who joins us online, has a supplementary question.

The question was about the high up-front costs of retrofitting measures, which have long payback periods. Given that, do you believe that the financial support that is in place is adequate?

Thank you for raising that interesting point.

We move on to the theme of a just transition.