Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Without repeating the extensive debate we had previously, I assume in the Minister of State's response we are going to be told that these are matters for building control rather than for the housing strategy. All I would say to the Minister of State, and through him to his officials, is that at some point this is going to have to happen. At some point, if we are to meet our embodied carbon emissions reductions targets, there will need to be an element of planning, plan making and housing strategising that looks at the level of embodied carbon in the built environment. It will not just be a matter for building control. I want to say that because if the officials with the Minister of State are here when that happens, I will be reminding them that we could have done it at an early stage. It is deeply disappointing and frustrating that we are not getting anything on embodied carbon in the built environment in this Bill, and I look forward to when the officials bring back, at a later stage, amending legislation to do the thing we could have done this time around because 2030 is only around the corner. This is such an important thing to do. It is one of the easiest things to do with regard to climate. It is far less politically contentious.

I am not going to look for a follow-up. I trust the Minister of State will read his note eloquently but this issue is not going away folks, and we need to deal with it at some stage.