Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency

Mr. John Coleman:

Indeed, and what we are discovering from counterparties we deal with in the development sector is that they are asking us questions about that, in terms of how we went about getting the passive house certification, and if it caused any issues. It is hard for a contractor to price that because of the quality, the taping-up and all of those things. We have had a lot of inbound engagement from the wider development sector asking if there is something to this, if this is something they should invoke, or if it is something that will make the developers' product more saleable into the future because it has high sustainability credentials. We would like to think we have set a trend, particularly with regard to passive housing. Our approach is the more, the better with regard to this high level of sustainability achievement, so we will share information with people to help them to focus on that too.

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