Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Building Reform Regulations: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Mr. Se?n Armstrong:
This is the planning legislation as it sits now. To go beyond that would be a matter for the planning division in the Department. It is not my place to make a statement on its behalf. Planning was not included today. On procurement, there are actions in the Climate Action Plan 2023 for public procurement changes. As I said earlier, representatives from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment are leading a decarbonisation working group. The Climate Action Plan 2023 has an action for public procurement to include low-carbon construction methods and low-carbon cement in procurement policies and mechanisms by the end of 2023. There is a plan in place to introduce this aspect.