Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 April 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion
Mr. Declan Meally:
There are ongoing discussions, both with our line Department, namely, the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, and with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. As I said earlier in response to another Deputy, what we see as the Holy Grail is being able to work with local authorities such that we will deal with private homes and local authority homes in the same housing estate and try to get an entire street done. We see that as an opportunity to reduce prices. It is an area on which we are in ongoing discussions, both with the local authorities in order to sense-check their own prices in terms of what is coming back through the schemes, and through working closely with them to ensure we can get better economies of scale.
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