Christopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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Perfect. I come back to the Chair’s question on the cost per unit. Again, I will use the home parallel.

I was talking to a lady in a social housing estate in my local area. She felt the heating in her house was not reaching the point she wanted so she was cranking up the temperature. Perhaps she should not have been doing that. There is an ESB bill to be paid afterwards and she said her bill was huge. She was attributing it to the heat pump and the use of electricity. Mr. Geraghty described the challenge of a five-year payback compared to a one to two year payback in other countries. What can we do to address that, and to incentivise industry to go down the cleaner, more sustainable, climate friendly electrification of the heating process?