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

Briefly, I want to strongly support these amendments. They are incredibly important. We are at a time when huge asks are being made of a lot of people with regard to climate change. For us to effectively not make similar asks of developers is completely inequitable, when you think of what other sectors are doing. The built environment is one of the biggest contributors to our carbon emissions, so this needs to be done as quickly as possible. It is deeply unfair that other sectors have their shoulders to the wheel, and the built environment, in respect of whole-of-life carbon, is not being asked to contribute at all at the moment.