Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Pat Barry:
The first is that we must start to measure, which we do not do. If we do not measure, we have no way of reducing. Get the public sector to be the first to start to measure then introduce a timeline to introduce regulations on embodied carbon.
This will set out what exactly is going to happen. In this way, we will develop the industry's capacity to measure. We did this quickly through the BER. We can take a similar approach to embodied carbon.
We would start removing some of the barriers around the waste directive and get more reused materials into the system so that they could be taken off site and reused.
Does Ms Jammet wish to speak about her top priority?
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