Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank all the witnesses for attending the meeting and for their opening statements. I will stick with the last item, the district heating system. The witnesses mentioned that the Department has started a working group. I am not sure when that began, but they are hoping to report by the end of the year. It seems quite late to me to have begun such a process. Can the witnesses give a bit more information on the scope of that working group? I know they said the SEAI is working closely with them.

I am familiar with the report commissioned by Dublin City Council in August 2020 that looked to Poolbeg. Is Poolbeg constructed to facilitate and contribute to a district heating system in that area at this juncture? Will it also have to be retrofitted to supply the region with a district heating system?