Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Review of National Planning Framework and Climate Targets: Discussion
Mr. George Hussey:
I will go back to the Deputy's original question because I think it is also relevant. If The Irish Timesor whomever turns out to be correct, in that we are in the 50,000 rather than the 30,000 ballpark, from my rudimentary mathematics it appears that by 2050 the housing stock will be approximately 50% greater than it is today. That is very significant growth and leaves room for an awful lot of change to habits and developments, and indeed to forms of heating that we might use. It is anecdotal rather than proper evidence, whether the idea of the decarbonisation zones and the local authority climate action plans might end up having a very positive effect in the sense that will be areas within local authorities almost challenging each other to try to become that zone and to be those winners. I am not really sure to what extent that is evidential but we have anecdotal evidence to that end. Does Ms Kelly wish to add anything?