Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)

Photo of Cian O'CallaghanCian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

That would be helpful and would be a small step in the right direction but in my view what is required is much more than that.

Some planning authorities might put in conditions around a requirement that in all construction projects the embodied carbon is measured, that there are carbon budgets and limits are set. We need to be moving towards that fast. The current plan is to have it measured by 2027. We should have limits in place by 2027. Other countries are ahead of us on this.

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