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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Does anybody? Ms Phelan is probably not able to answer this. Does any agency or Department collate those figures on how many have been requested?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: There is no central point. The Department would have to write out to each local authority planning department and ask them how many of these have been requested.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: In summary, at the minute we could produce 6,000 modular units per annum and Mr. O’Colmain is seeing indications that can scale up to 10,000. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I apologise for interrupting. If there is any time, could we come back to Mr. O'Connor and the forestry question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Yes, the OPW's level of engagement with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine specifically in the area of forestry licensing. Has Mr. O'Connor given the Department the very coherent feedback he has given us on how the process could be streamlined? Is it a one-way or two-way engagement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Mr. O'Connor has talked himself into an appearance at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I will tease out matters a little further with the representatives of Enterprise Ireland. There is a considerable opportunity when it comes to off-site construction. We are traditionally held as a nation of builders, particularly in rural Ireland. Longford is a case in point. Mr. O'Colmain said he visited Framespace Solutions. Porteus and Procon are also based in Longford. There are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (28 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance the initiatives that he is taking to expand the credit union sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20525/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 26. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated cost of the recent cuts to excise duties on petrol, diesel and marked gas oil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20524/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Cost of Living Issues (28 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 107. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount he has allocated in expenditure measures to ease cost of living pressures since and including budget 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20514/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (28 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 112. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if capital expenditure to date in 2022 is within profile; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20515/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Chair and our colleagues for facilitating us and I thank the witnesses for the informative presentations. It is great to see a sea of work under way in this area. It is important and is a key pillar of our programme for Government. I will tee off with some key questions for each of the witnesses. Starting with Dr. Byrne, regarding the BER reclassification, this is being done...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Joe Flaherty: What will be the percentages from A to G?