Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It will not be one year, it will be quicker than that. A lot quicker. This Government has three years to run and I believe that it has the necessary plans: Housing For All, the climate plan and the national development plan. The Housing For All plan also commits exactly to the sort of measures that Deputy Fitzmaurice was talking about.

Across all Departments we now have to focus on delivery, delivery and delivery, and it being fast. We must take some of the capability we showed during Covid and during Brexit to make decisions quickly and not to be forever examining and going to the nth degree. Deputy Grealish also referred to projects taking so long. I commit to Deputy Fitzmaurice that I will go away and sit down with the Department and come back to the Deputy to see how we could be fast and quicker and how could we introduce not just the legislation but also the regulations needed to make that happen, subject to the right environmental standards and making sure that we keep the proper rules in place. I agree with the Deputy that we need to be quicker and more flexible and innovative and particularly in this area. Dealing with such waste and the carbon emissions coming from it is one of the best and most economic ways of saving emissions and saving money.

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