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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: When Mr. Barry says embodied carbon, that is the carbon that is a consequence of the production of the materials in the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is CLT?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I wish to mention two things. For the record, notwithstanding the fact that they are going to give us the document, could the witnesses give us a little bit of detail on how the operation in Tipperary works, its costs and its origins? If that model works we do not have to reinvent the wheel. This could be rolled out in local authorities over several years. I asked a question about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: What are the annual operating costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: What was the cost of those retrofits?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is that per unit?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: In some sense the solution to the loan finance is what already exists in the social housing sector. We have a Housing Finance Agency which provides Government-backed low-interest loans at 2% to 3% blended. The issue is the political question of whether, because they are on balance sheet, the State is willing to take that on. A facility could be easily designed, which could be operated by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: And new homes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I assure them that just because there are fewer of us does not mean we will not give them a hard time or take up as much of their time as we did with the previous witnesses. As I have many questions, I will put some in a first round and come back to some of the others later. I will start with the near zero energy building standard. One of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses. I have some additional questions and perhaps will pick up on some of the questions that were answered. With regard to the SEAI's grants, the witness spoke about the number of people who applied to the SEAI and utilised grants and how they could be activated to go further. Does the SEAI keep a record of the number of people who applied to the authority but were unable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: I presume that that is being monitored through the building control amendment regulations, BCAR, system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Given the new areas of expertise, is the Department satisfied there are sufficient skills and competence among the assigned certifiers, who are essentially the watchdogs who are doing the inspections and submitting the reports to the building control management system? Is there not a requirement, given its importance, to have an additional level of monitoring or checking at a departmental...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: Assigned certifiers are a key part of monitoring. Were they part of that training? Is Mr. Armstrong satisfied that that section of the industry, who are the people going out, inspecting developments as they are being built and submitting certificates to local authorities, has the requisite level of skills? That would include not just designers and construction workers but certifiers too.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: What is CPD?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: How many people make initial contact but, for whatever reason, are unable to secure grants? Does Mr. Gannon have an analysis of what prevents them from going through with it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about when they have to be removed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: In respect of solar planning regulations, the problem is certain categories of buildings, such as schools, are not included in exemptions. The sizes that are exempt were based on older technologies and this creates particular problems for the PVs. I acknowledge the Department is limited in staff and has a million other things going on but when I hear that a review is to be concluded by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Efficient Housing: Discussion (15 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is related to the issue of gas boilers. Mr. Armstrong did not say we would eventually have to replace the majority of them. It concerns their life cycle and when they have to be repaired, etc. Is it the view of the Department and the Government that many houses can continue to have gas boilers indefinitely or will they have to be phased out at some point? How would that be achieved?...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: On page 23 of the programme for Government, the Government promised to initiate an affordable cost rental housing scheme last July. The Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, announced plans for a cost-rental project in St. Michael's Estate in Inchicore. There is growing frustration among the local community that nothing has happened in a year. We saw...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (21 May 2019)

Eoin Ó Broin: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the proposed sale by NAMA of the National Asset Residential Property Services DAC, NARPS, special purpose vehicle and the impact of a sale on the long-term security of tenure for the tenants of the 1,230 properties held by same. [21418/19]