Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I accept that rail transport and district heating will make significant respective contributions to the climate change agenda. A bit more work is needed. The Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications recently brought a document to the Government on a policy framework for district heating. However, there is the size of the country and other factors to take into account. There is one development in Tallaght, Dublin, that has been successful. There could be another at Poolbeg but we need local actors to get their act together in terms of pipes and so forth. There is significant investment going into rail transport. Deputy Shanahan might close his ears to this but the Midleton-Cork-Mallow rail service was designed around density and to enhance further density in that corridor as part of the EU's recovery and resilience programme.

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