Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 April 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I get that, but that is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, and when that Department is in, I will grill it on that. There is nothing to say that once that methodology is in place, the planning system could not be revised to privilege certain types of building materials. I do not mean individual building products but products that have a certain embodied carbon level. There is no reason that could not be done. We do not do it currently.
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