As the Minister, the hon. Member for Brent, North Dr. Boyson, knows, we have an extremely alarming unemployment problem in Belfast. Such a scheme would provide employment where it is needed, and for a long time. It might take 10 or 15 years to develop a heat gridwork and a power station. Much of the capital cost of the power plant can be met by local labour. Our local company, Harland and Wolff, is capable of manufacturing the small turbines or engines appropriate to a combined heat and power plant.
Sporting a summer-casual leaf-print shirt, Mr. Patrick was greeted by resident Jen Powers and her two daughters, Josephine and Talulah. The girls presented the governor with a glass jar filled with sea glass and rocks excavated from the site of their nearly zero-net-energy affordable home. Mrs. Powers and her daughters had jotted the words commitment, compassion, generosity and service on the rocks to signify the values of the community, which built the South Mountain Company-designed, Habitat for Humanity house.