Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein)

I started off talking earlier on about this area of biomass and who would be against it and the new energy that will come from it but the people I was talking to were saying that there is a lack of regulation. Even more worrying is there is a lack of planning in this regard. In relation to where these go, it is really up to the local planning authority. It is similar with, say, data centres. There is a number of them out in my constituency, which is also Deputy Lahart's. In one case, the heat off the data centre will be used for the local hospital, local authority, etc. If we are talking about planning the likes of data centres, there does not seem to be an spatial plan of where they should be and the impact they will have, etc. Similarly, with the biomass, if we are talking about these hundreds of trucks, does anyone want them next door with the smell and everything else? However, it is good for society and for the food waste that we generate. They should be located near cities but no one at any senior level seems to be overseeing the popping up of these different centres. This applies to biomass, data centres and other situations. Is part of the big weakness in Ireland that there is no overseeing body that is looking over and saying that this is good but we have to control it and do the A, B, Cs in relation to it, infrastructure and everything else? Am I missing the point here? This is what we are talking about.