Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The climate action fund was an attempt to help bottom-up thinking to see what was possible. It is significant that two schemes which were successful were district heating schemes, the one in Dublin city with a figure of €20 million and the one in Tallaght in the area of South Dublin County Council with a figure of €4.5 million. It signals to me that there is potential in this area. When I was there, the city manager noted that they had already laid some pipes and had a network of several buildings that could be connected. They have done some homework to make this a possibility. I will look at the potential to further extend the number of schemes and would welcome new ideas in that regard. That is what the climate action fund is about and most of the initiatives are related to creating better frameworks that could be expanded further, of which clearly this is one.

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