Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I very much welcome the project. I understand we are looking at the initial phase where it will connect to new housing and businesses in the docklands, including on the Irish Glass Bottle site and the new build commercial premises in the north inner city along the quays. That is all very welcome, but I am very keen that we be much more ambitious. There are some pipes in place that would allow us to extend the project further up the river to new developing areas, including the Heuston Park Quarter. We should be looking at a range of other developments. It will require the council's support but also that of the Government to install the piping needed to enable further connections to be made. The figure of 90MW of waste heat to which the Minister referred is not insignificant. We could go further if we were to connect to other power stations on the Poolbeg peninsula where there is waste heat going into the River Liffey. Are there plans to provide for that level of scaling up and to take a much more ambitious approach?

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