Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

At government level, under the climate action Act, each local authority is legally required to produce a climate action plan. All local authorities are doing that and they are across various different areas. I have seen some of the draft plans. It is unfair to say that local authorities are not required to have any account of climate; they are through the climate action plans. I refer to embodied carbon, which is a specific area.

We need to do that in a very structured way and have consistency across local authorities to provide certainty to people. I again go back to the core principle that it is a building control standard rather than a planning one. I feel I am going around in circles at this point.