Ms Oonagh Buckley:

Certainly, we have excess energy wasted. We have a challenge around district heating schemes. It is not something Ireland has done to any great extent before. We have to put in place the regulatory and commercial environment to deliver on it so people can have security around that. The Deputy will know there was a recent report published by the Department in that space.

We need to do a few clear pathfinder projects, one of which I mentioned already, that is, the Dublin district heating project. There is an innovative project in south Dublin that uses excess waste from a data centre, which is a very interesting innovation and something we could certainly learn from. We waste a lot of heat at the moment in this country and we should be trying to use it much more effectively. That is part of why we are working so very hard in that space.