Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I would hate to think that we would be doing anything other than trying to achieve our targets. The idea of buying compliance would mean we are going to have to keep on buying compliance. I asked Dr. Byrne about the economies of scale on the Fingal project and one of the things he said was that there was a bit of resistance in that. Is there resistance in other areas? I have seen it myself. An industrial campus in my area has a project it is going to be undertaking that will project surplus energy. It wanted to use that energy with a new housing estate for district heating. The developer did not seem to want to or did not think it was a good idea and was not buying into it. Is that same resistance happening in other areas? Is there good cross-departmental work? I am thinking, for example, of the rooftop revolution in terms of solar panels in schools, which has underachieved. Where are there bottlenecks there that could be overcome?