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

Ms Marion Jammet:

No, it is aligned with what we have in the levels. The European framework for sustainable buildings is aligned with the taxonomy. We are not doing anything that is not aligned with requirements at European level. What is useful as well as part of the development of the methodology and the pilots is very much to identify the hotspots, so perhaps we do not to look at all materials, or at least we do not need to give the same level of consideration to everything. It is really about the hotspots. What we see is very much in terms of carbon. It is the substructure and the facade. Maybe that is another thing to keep in mind with respect to where our focus is.