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

If there are particular circumstances where market price volatility really seems to be shooting up, I think communal heating systems as well as district heating can be designed in a way that gives some of that stability. We have to be careful we do not throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are real benefits of communal heating systems. We just need to get the design and technology right so that there are not any price shocks for householders. There will always be variability. Sometimes that can be on the positive side. When market prices were very low, there could be real benefits, but nobody wants high energy prices shocks and we have to look at how we design that out of any future contracts and systems.

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