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. Mark Christal:

I will call on my colleagues, Mr. O'Colmain and Mr. Kerrigan, in a moment. Two points struck me as the Deputy asked the first question. We are spending a lot of time with all of our clients, including in this sector, looking at the decarbonisation agenda those companies are going to go on and how best we can support them around that, which includes new energy sources, etc. We will definitely spend more time on this area. We are having constructive engagement with companies in the construction sector on that.

In terms of high-end technology and innovation, we need to spend more time on developing funds like the disruptive technology innovation fund and seeing how we can apply them to encourage collaboration between companies in the third-level sector and across clusters to be really innovative in terms of technology are areas That is something we have contributed a lot to already but we will focus more on it. I will ask my colleagues to add to my opening remarks to see if there is any further detail in respect to Deputy Ó Broin's question.

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