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
Absolutely not. Let us take cement and concrete. If we take the approach Mr. Armstrong has just outlined, the vested interests that have made high levels of investment in recent years in their higher carbon facilities will desperately resist the shift to many of these new methods of construction. One of the challenges to the building industry will be that some of the companies and developers who are wedded to the old ways will either have to get with the programme or be displaced by new emerging companies. If we leave it to industry, we know what will happen.
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