Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To go back to my original question, how quickly will the Minister scale up that pilot scheme? Various pilot schemes were run in 2008. The ESB ran one previously also. The Minister of State has had one running for several months and he is talking about doing a review next year. The IPCC set out that we have 12 years to take action on climate change. The strongest message it sent was urgency. A greater level of urgency is needed to deal with this challenge and the Minister of State is talking about having that review conducted some time next year. How quickly can he get it done? I do not want one of those 12 years to be lost doing a pilot scheme. How quickly will the new scheme be up and running? He has already seen different aspects of the older schemes so we need to know how quickly he will do that. Also, what kind of targets will the Minister of State set in respect of it? Will there be opportunities for communities to take part and will that participation be widespread?

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