Tusla says it's an offence to run an unregistered children’s home, but it places children in them anyways
So how does it square the circle?
It has until 2030 to roll out points for ships to plug into the electricity grid, if it is to meet an EU deadline.
“We’d be very lucky to get it all completed in 2030.”
It's generally more environmentally friendly to renovate existing buildings than to abandon them to the wrecking ball, but other public organisations could follow suit.
But will funding follow to make possible these ambitions?
After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.
They are shunted into a bumpy sliver of gutter between the kerb and the Luas tracks.
"Digital screens are impacting on our environment,” says independent Councillor Mannix Flynn. “It’s another erosion of the public domain.”
"The simple thing is, protect this, and you protect the city," says Marcus Collier, associate professor and head of botany at Trinity College Dublin.
It’ll use waste heat from the Poolbeg incinerator, instead of fossil fuels, to warm buildings.
“How this has been managed is an absolute joke,” said a frustrated Lord Mayor Ray McAdam.
Imagine a network of local enterprises that plan for the future and are owned by the people, says Sean McCabe, the head of Climate Justice and Sustainability at Bohemians FC.
Even though France requires them, England builds them, and Wicklow County Council installed some years ago.