Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Michael Kelleher:

New building regulations came in in 2014. At that point, the whole landscape changed in respect of regulation and inspections. We have had a number of legislative provisions in Part L and Part B come through the system as well. This has substantially improved the product we are producing today. We now have air-to-water units, which are very efficient from the point of view of the operational costs for the end user and we have airtight houses with fresh air. All this means that the product we are producing today is up to any standard and better than in England or much of Europe. We have a very good product. Unfortunately, economically, there is a cost to putting that product there.

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