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)

Photo of Francis Noel DuffyFrancis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Yes, but the two of them are related. I kind of get it is the horse before the cart. I have to disagree with the Minister of State in the context that the technology is definitely there because I have used it. The embodied carbon of a building can be quantified. The technology is there and it is being used. When that comes, will there be a case for the next Government or whichever Government to amend the current Act to bring it in to strategise going forward? Alternatively, is there a way of putting something into the Act that when these things are coming – because the Minister of State referenced them coming – going forward, there will be measures put in place that we have to take all this on board with what is coming instead of it being blank?

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