Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 February 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed)
10:00 am
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I will just finish this one sentence. We had considerable discussion at an early stage about the need, for example, for a review of fire safety regulations in terms of BCAR to ensure that, for example, we can use low-carbon building materials over 10 m to ensure sustainable development. Because of all that, this amendment is absolutely crucial. It is not a matter of semantics; it is a matter of ensuring adequate prioritisation to force the requisite level of action from Departments, including the Minister’s, as well as planning authorities and those people who seek and secure consents through those. I will press the amendment.
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