Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Modern Construction Methods: Discussion

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Given that we have a tight timeline, particularly with public procurement, do we need to move to a place where if people are providing a building technology that has a lower embodied carbon, they get a higher scoring point on the tendering process, for example? Is that one recommendation as regards concrete? Do we need to combine that with a very publicly announced phase-out of either volumes of concrete or certain types of concrete? What are the actual measures that would help? Cultures do not change on their own; they need a nudge or push.

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