I will ask about the planning exemptions for solar panels. The microgeneration support scheme received Government approval last month and the large retrofit scheme was announced only last week allowing premises to install and use solar panels, including schools, churches, community buildings and farm buildings. I understand the requirement for strategic environmental assessment. That is only right and proper but we urgently need to move and expedite this process to bring in the exemptions for solar panels for domestic use and across all commercial use.

I agree with the Deputy. I am putting enormous pressure on my colleague sitting two seats from me to get on with it; he assures me that it will be done in the next two to three weeks. I have been to schools where it is very dispiriting when students come up to me to ask why they cannot have a solar panel on their school.

This is part of a wider education and awareness programme. Young people want to lead on climate change and these sort of things so the pressure is on for everyone.

I also want to raise the issue of solar panels on schools. I recently visited St. Philip's senior national school which has been awarded a grant for a major refurbishment of the school's walls and ceilings. It would be a shame not to have solar panels installed while that refurbishment work is being done. It is really important that the Government brings forward that exemption. According to a recent report from Stanford University, solar panels would meet 75% of schools' energy costs and would reduce the carbon footprint of the education sector by as much as 28%. It is well worth doing.

As I said, this Government would be the first Government to do it. No other Government has done this. We should do it. I take the Deputy's point.