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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...complex. As a country, we declared a climate emergency in 2019. We are behind in terms of getting our carbon emissions down and 11% of carbon emissions are coming from the building process and the building industry. There are technologies out there that could be used today if there was an obligation to use them and they would significantly reduce that percentage. For example, we have...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: ...and in the context of all other aspects of plan-making, take real action to require that the issue of embodied carbon is at the centre of these plans. We mentioned the Irish Green Building Council and the event at which we all spoke. A number of us, including me, Deputy Duffy and others, are ambassadors for the Irish Green Building Council and are happy to be so. The council did two...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: First, it is worth noting that timber is not only not a modern method of construction. In fact, it is really oldest method of construction. Buildings were made of timber before even stone or concrete. Hundreds of years ago, the buildings and houses in Dublin city were constructed out of timber. We sometimes hear it referred to as some sort of modern or novel use but it is not. As the...