Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage

Photo of Alan FarrellAlan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

And incentivisation. We must accept at this stage, and I appreciate this is the policy side of things, that we cannot be saying, "Ah, here you go; it'll be grand." The cheapest option will be gone with, but we need to start conditioning the sector to respond to the requirements set out in the climate action plan, right across every Department. Incentivisation has to be pretty stark in this process. We are incentivising the public to upgrade their properties to reduce their carbon emissions. We need to do the same at the beginning of the process as well.

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