Dr. Liam Heaphy:

In relation to transport and housing, the research of people like Niamh Moore-Cherry is interesting in terms of looking at forward planning and the history of forward planning in Ireland. She has historically looked at cases such as the Dublin docklands and the work that was done there. Certainly it would seem from that that there is a much greater role for forward planning. To resource that forward planning, it interacts with local government whereby more agency is given to government at the local scale to implement that sort of planning. We have seen those changes happen in areas that have been resourced with a lot of new developments, in Dublin City Council for example, as well as Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and Cork city that are in alignment with sustainable planning principles that are fairly common around Europe and the world. On cement, the Irish Green Building Council, IGBC, published a report last year written by Oliver Kinnane and Richard O'Hegarty, which covers cement and those ceilings for that sector and for the construction sector in terms of where we are and where we hope to be.