Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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His account is very comprehensive. The issue for a country like our own is that we do not have communities used to developing heat plans. We have sustainable energy communities, but their ambitions would not tend to go beyond insulation-type work in most cases. In the professor's view, can municipalities and-or central government do something to prime the pump of this model? We are at zero in terms of genuine district heating grid as the professor would describe it. Does Government need to enunciate a vision beyond the 2.7 TWh to start to map the ambition, where development might start and what the pump-priming initiatives would be? Is that what we need to do, coming from a zero base?