Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 June 2021

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

The Cost of Climate Action: Discussion

Mr. Seán McCabe:

I am one of those people. I am a tenant. It is a very challenging situation. This is where we get into the issue of the interdependence between action on the housing crisis and action on climate action. The challenges are interrelated. In terms of the tenancy, it should be a do-no-harm approach first. We need to make sure that we do not inadvertently gentrify areas through retrofitting and push marginal groups further to the peripheries of our society. If we could ensure security of tenure in a more robust way, we could then look to specialised grants or targeted measures to allow the retrofitting of rented properties.

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