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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: Will this be additional to the 21,500 units when it is rolled out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I thank Ms Loftus.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I have a quick question on cost rental. I apologise for cutting across Ms Cosgrove. I do not see numbers in there. I know the approved housing body space is quite interested in cost rental and pushed it. If there are to be 21,500 units in the next eight years, I do not see the numbers. Is the Government holding that back?

Proposed Authorisation by Dáil Éireann for Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to Instruct Legal Representatives: Motion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I move: That Dáil Éireann, pursuant to section 4(2)(f)(iv) of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Acts 2003-2021, hereby authorises the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to defend Workplace Relations Commission proceedings against a member of Dáil Éireann entitled: ADJ-00035213, and which proceedings arise solely out of the performance by the member concerned of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: 189. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if clarity and guidance will be provided in relation to charging electric vehicles in multi-unit developments in which there is a pathway between the home charger and the car; if households can charge their electric vehicle by running the charging cable on the pathway from their household to the car space; if cables should be covered;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I have read their statements. How will the State implement the embodied carbon targets going forward and is there a plan for doing so? I am glad to welcome all the witnesses here today. I am a little disappointed that the Department official could not make it. However as members know and it may have been discussed - I am sorry I missed the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: Three questions. On the last one, I have engaged with the SEAI and I am not sure how much is happening in that space.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I know I am running out of time but the feedback I got from Seán Armstrong and the Department officials the last time was that levels is the route we are taking in the context of measurement. An A-rated building, it depends on the building type but it is around 200 to 300 and it goes up from that. That is what the international data suggest at the moment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I will come back later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: The Senator has a minute remaining.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I will follow up later as well because I have a few questions. Did we pursue part L in isolation as a State or did we follow Europe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I have some follow-up questions. On the green procurement group, I have been chasing the green public procurement policy and I have spoken to Ciarán Cuffe and Robert Watt over the years about it about it as well. It does not seem to be anywhere. There is a draft somewhere. Is that group a public committee? Has it published any reports?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: Is Mr. Meally a member? Is it public knowledge who the members are?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I will have a look. My other question arises from the briefing I had from the Department of Housing, Government and Local Heritage. I know it is not fully Mr. Meally’s bailiwick, so I am asking his opinion in the context of levels and the EU implementing the carbon targets and whether they will be A- or B-rated. I know that is out there because I am working on buildings where we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: Is there any sight of when this will happen? I had this conversation with the Department at least a year ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: There are more than 500 million people living in Europe. I know the process of assimilating over 20 countries into one process is happening but my understanding is that we decide what way we implement directives. Is that not correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: It concerns environmental product declarations. Are the EPDs not universal and specific to a material?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I get it as regards a machine. I might come back on this if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: On CEM III, which is ground granulated blastfurnace slag, GGBS, cement, my understanding from the State architect, Mr. Ciarán O'Connor, is there is only 18% of it available on the planet because it is a by-product of the steel industry. One would never get 100% CEM III; one would only ever get 20%. We could probably get more because we are a small country, but in this context one is...