Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the expected timeframe for the roll-out of district heating. [14766/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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Further to Action 187 of the Climate Action Plan 2021, my Department has established a District Heating Steering Group. This Steering Group draws together the expertise of key stakeholder organisations in order to inform the setting of targets and other key elements for the rollout of district heating at far greater scale. A function of the Steering Group is to address barriers to the rollout of district heating in order to ensure that advantage can be taken of this technology to decarbonise the built environment and diversify energy supply for heat. The Steering Group will report to Government later this year and integral to its report will be recommendations for targets for the rollout of district heating that are both realistic and ambitious in scale.