Results 581-587 of 587 for speaker:Naoise Ó Cearúil
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Naoise Ó Cearúil: What role would a natural materials testing laboratory play in enabling circular construction practices and low carbon innovation? Will it make these materials more readily available and more quickly available when we see them being used in the UK, in Europe or in the US so we can actually get in and get them approved as quickly as possible and test them as quickly as possible to get them...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Naoise Ó Cearúil: Who would be responsible for that laboratory from the CIF perspective? Would it fall under a particular Government Department or would it be independent? Where does Mr. Ryan think it should sit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Naoise Ó Cearúil: If we can make construction greener, cleaner, quicker and cheaper, I think we need to leverage every lever that we can. I had one more question but I can wait until the second round. It was in relation to demolition. I believe Senator Higgins and Deputy Ahern dealt with a lot of it. Do I have time?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Naoise Ó Cearúil: I am okay with that. I thank the Cathaoirleach.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Naoise Ó Cearúil: There was discussion about the cost of retrofitting and the affordability gap as regards the warmer homes scheme and retrofitting. It is important to point out that, in the recent budget, €558 million was allocated to the SEAI. I hope we will see more of the various grants over the next year and over the coming years. I hope that industry will also play its part in bridging that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Naoise Ó Cearúil: My point is that it looks better now than it did 20 years ago. In terms of the initial construction, I agree that the Georgian facade should have been kept.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)
Naoise Ó Cearúil: What sorts of incentives are we speaking about? Are we talking about exemptions from taxes or levies?