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

I will have to wait for the completion of the report. I do not want to second-guess it. The independent group has to conclude its work. As I said, there is a distinction, which we discussed earlier, between group central heating systems and district heating. We will, in all likelihood, need both. In my mind, the real large-scale development is on the district heating side. The real benefit there is that a waste product is used and turned into a useful resource. It is common across many European jurisdictions. It has not been developed here but we need to scale that up. We need to learn lessons where there are schemes. I remember Carlinn Hall as an example. I think I was there at the very start of the project when I was formerly Minister responsible for energy. The report would be useful not just for that facility but to make sure we do not have a situation where householders are caught out if, for example, the gas markets skyrocket, there is no flexibility, and it goes straight off the market price. We have to learn lessons from what happened.

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