Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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I have just one final point. The cost of all this is the first thing people think of, and it has been the experience in the past that when you go to a greener type of building, the costs go much higher compared with the costs of traditional materials that have been used. We have an argument going on at the moment about the cost of affordable housing in Dublin. The cost of affordable housing everywhere is an issue, and if we are going to try to produce houses that are of a lower carbon footprint but whose cost will be higher for the consumer, it simply will not work. We need to acknowledge that and have solutions for it.