Rory Hearne (Dublin North-West, Social Democrats)

Is construction worker capacity an issue for the ESB or Uisce Éireann currently or as they scale up in terms of getting construction capacity for delivering their infrastructure? To the ESB, if we had a greater level of solar panel delivery on homes, is there the potential for that to provide electricity, and if there was proper retrofitting happening, would that in any way address the issue?

The ESB and Uisce Éireann are both State companies. If we had a State construction company that was hiring construction workers directly, like the ESB, would that offer potential to deliver housing? They are both semi-successful State companies. Do they have any comment on that?