Dáil debates

Wednesday, 10 June 2020

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed)

 

8:35 pm

Photo of Damien EnglishDamien English (Meath West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is happening in very rare cases, to be honest. The majority of housing we are building now has an A2 rating and it would be hard to achieve the A2 rating with an over-reliance on fossil fuels. The majority are not relying on fossil fuels and we are certainly discouraging it for the future. The statistics show in general that 45% of housing is now using heat pumps compared to 4% a couple of years ago. There has been a major change because of our regulations. Local authority housing is being built. It is funny that Members continue to say we are not building local authority housing, yet they ask questions about how many houses have that. There is proof that they are being built and they have a very high rating, and rightly so. We were committed to that. With the new regulations that came into force in November 2019, which will kick in from this year or next year onwards, one will not see any fossil fuels because it might not be possible to reach that standard with fossil fuels.

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