Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party)
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Sure. I think everybody in the room is 100% supportive of what the witnesses are asking for. We see how sensible it is. We see clearly that the building regulations need to be changed.

If we were sitting with a different bunch of witnesses, say, from the construction industry or with construction economists, and were I to put the question to them that if they were to build a terrace of ten houses or an estate of 45 semi-detached houses, apartments or whatever it may be, and they were to build 20% of them to a standard of UD++, 40% of them to UD+ and the remainder not to that standard, would they tell us that doing so would add incredibly to the costs?