Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion

11:00 am

Mr. Hubert Fitzpatrick:

To reiterate, we have invested heavily in the whole education piece, for example, the supply chain sustainability school. We were not asked to do that by the Government. It was done willingly by our ESG committee. There is also the measurement of carbon. We have lobbied the Government to see if we could use more efficient fuel on-site. We lobbied the Government to see if the cost of HVO fuel could be reduced to make it more attractive on-site because it is more expensive than ordinary diesel fuel. I do not see anything wrong with that. If we can operate more efficiently on-site using environmental fuels, that is a perfectly legitimate thing for the federation to do.