Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On communal heating systems, I imagine that the likes of Frontline can avail of it on that basis. The problem is that two or maybe three of these companies have a huge number of individual locations. The limit of €30,000 or whatever could mean that a company would not necessarily qualify. This is not about saving Frontline, but about the residents who live in these residential set-ups. It is a very bad set-up. In fairness, a significant amount of work is being done by management companies, and by Frontline and the others, to deliver a solution involving the Department, the SEAI and everyone else. As I have said, this is a bad winter. It is not about putting money into the coffers of Frontline. If benefits were allocated on a location-by-location basis, one might be able to mitigate the price for those people. In some of these estates, one will have some people who are in local authority housing, or housing that has been provided by approved housing bodies and all the rest of it, so a huge number of people will be experiencing severe cost constraints. All we are trying to do here is get people through the gap. I assume one could make the argument that TBESS is not the facility to do this work. I am saying that TBESS is the only facility I have seen in the last while that could possibly do this in the short term. In the medium and long terms, there is a solution. It just needs to be operated as quickly as possible.