Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion

Mr. Paul Kenny:

I agree that we should have a phase-out date for fossil fuel boilers, which should commence with new builds. We should then move to the phasing out of oil in the public sector and then the private sector, followed by the phasing out of gas in the public sector and then the private sector over the next 15 to 20 years. However, it is hard to do this when we are still allowing the installation of oil and particularly gas boilers in new public buildings and renovated public buildings.