Ms Kerrie Sheehan:

There are six prongs to what has to happen to get to where we need to go to. It is the national strategy, that Ms McCarthy was talking about, and then designating roles and responsibilities across the system to do it, from regulation, planning, finance, support, what local authorities do or do not do, and private or public decisions.

On funding, it will cost to build out at scale. There is that knowledge base about public perception and then all the different actors across the system. There are questions. For example, what is district heating and what does it mean for them? It is about building up that awareness and acceptance. On market development, we cannot do anything without the sector mobilised and having confidence to operate within in. Then there is skills and capacity. Everything comes back to that key component. There are skills but it will have to be adapted to district heating. Some of the skills are needed in other areas and that is another prospect.