Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There are good long-term prospects in that area. Because of the target we have of 500,000 houses and more, the work will be where people live. People will not necessarily have to travel that far for it if we are to eventually reach that target, which is encouraging.

I had a brief discussion with somebody the other day about heat pumps and that person asked me about storage heaters. Are storage heaters completely gone and are they a technology of the past? We will use electricity to power heat pumps as we scale up renewable electricity and reduce the emissions from electricity generation. Are storage heaters of any benefit as a future source of heating a house?