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 Alice-Mary HigginsAlice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I apologise for interrupting but, to be clear, Ireland has stated that we want to build more than 200,000 new homes in the next five years, with 158,550 new homes by 2026. Are we suggesting that we will not try to apply these measures to the 158,000 buildings that we have committed to build before that and that we will wait until we are made to in 2026, when somewhere like Denmark has already been applying it to anything over 1,000 sq. m since last year? Do we have a front-loaded building plan here?

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