Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the Minister of State's response and will follow up with the Minister on the matter. We all accept the benefits of district heating systems when they use overflow heat, which would otherwise be waste, but that is not the case here. From an environmental point of view, they are a complete disaster in the sense that they must use 100 units to get 50 units of heat. That is not going to work.

As anyone who has made contact with the CRU will know, it maintains it does not have responsibility in this field, and that needs to be rectified. One way or another, these people are paying an extortionate price for gas and it needs to be capped. We need to ensure the CRU can take action. There is a wider issue in respect of building regulation and heat energy assessment modelling. We cannot end up with heating systems such as this again. Long term, we will need a solution for Carlinn Hall, which I assume will mean a different form of heating system and possibly a different energy supply.

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