Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 5 November 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Consultation on the Draft National Planning Framework (Resumed): Discussion
3:00 pm
Mr. George Hussey:
Transport is probably the most problematic of them all in the sense it has been growing since returning to relatively normal post-Covid practices. Even in the past year and in that quarterly update from the EPA, it was still seeing growth in transport emissions at this stage, so it is an unavoidable conclusion for us to link these two issues of planning and transport together. Despite our best efforts and despite the gradual decarbonisation of the fleet, emissions are still on the rise, unfortunately, rather than falling, which is what we need to see.
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