Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised)
2:00 am
Micheál Carrigy (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
I thank the Minister of State. This is slightly straying off the subject matter of the meeting, but on building regulations and building apartments, in Scotland they build timber-framed apartments in half the time. Under the regulations we have, we cannot do that. We were looking at alternative ways of building. From a climate action point of view, carbon is being sequestered by using timber frames. It is acknowledged that it is the way to go but we cannot build timber-framed apartment buildings.
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