Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to join with my colleagues. We are all on the same committee. There are two very simple things. There is energy out there. However, we are turning off the wind turbines because we think there is nobody to use it. There is plenty of energy available. There are people who need hot water or who maybe could use that energy to do other things in the evening. Let us use technology to people's benefit.

The second point is one I do not understand. It will take years to refurbish every local authority house. I cannot understand why in the interim every local authority house is not getting solar panels as a separate parallel scheme. One does not interfere with the other. We need to be ruthlessly practical and we have to stop people coming up with all sorts of reasons not to do things. In this country, we have to adopt the motto of "Do it". If there are issues to be resolved then resolve them and do not use them as barriers.

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