Ivana Bacik (Dublin Bay South, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I join with others in calling for a re-municipalisation of waste services, including green waste services. I will host a briefing by the Fórsa union in the audiovisual room at 3 p.m. on precisely that topic. Fórsa will present research it has conducted into this issue. I ask the Taoiseach to engage with the union on that.

I also raise the issue of offshore wind and the concerns I am hearing from many stakeholders regarding the lengthy delays in developing the necessary infrastructure by the Government to ensure, in particular, that the necessary framework is in place for floating offshore wind. There have been more moves on fixed-bottom wind generation but floating offshore wind seems to have been pushed much further off, since the intervention of the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, in February. There is real concern about why that is so, which is why I raise it.

I hear of immense problems faced by people in communal heating schemes who have astronomical bills. Has the report of the district heating steering group been submitted to the Government and considered by the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change?

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