Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Ciarán Ahern (Dublin South West, Labour)
I thank the witnesses for coming in to us this afternoon. Going back to Senator Higgins's point on restricting demolitions, I will give an example I am familiar with because I used to work there. A and L Goodbody has recently renovated its headquarters on North Wall Quay and I understand 75% of the original structure was retained. The concrete skeleton of the office block was kept and floors were added. I understand that is best in class when it comes to reducing the amount of embodied carbon that is lost. Is that happening elsewhere in Dublin or anywhere around the country? Is that a viable model or more of a once-off? I put that out there for all the witnesses.
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