Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Pat Barry:
At the moment, the Irish agrément certification process does not really have a timeline. It is quite complex. Information can be submitted but a person would not get a strict timeline. It could take a couple of years to get an Irish agrément certificate, and it can be quite expensive. We really need to streamline it so that we can give a fairly fixed short timeline. I am not going to say an exact timeline, but it does need to be defined because, quite often, if you are trying to get MMC through certification - possibly CIF can talk better to this - the timeline can be quite extended and it can become a very expensive process.