Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses. With regard to climate change, tackling derelictions and vacancy is very important with regard to embodied carbon. I am certainly of the strong view that if NOAC did more in the area, it would be useful. I cannot speak for the whole committee but it is an area we have looked at a lot. Anything that can be done there would be very valuable.

Across some of the indicators there is quite some variance in how some local authorities provide answers or data. I know the workshops and training has been done with them. Is the commission confident we are reaching a stage where the results will be more uniform? It affects the data from some. The workshops and training helps some but we get the sense from some local authorities that the data responses can be a little evasive as well. If a local authority is a little evasive in how it answers, is there a mechanism for dealing with that? I am not saying this applies to most local authorities but I get the sense that a few can be slightly evasive from time to time.