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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)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will ask a follow-up question to the reply that the witnesses gave me. Some companies are providing good-quality products. Those products might not be CLT, but they are comparable to CLT in terms of what they do. These companies need capital investment, which Enterprise Ireland can provide. They also need to be able to secure orders so that they can build factories and scale up....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I might come in in the third round.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will finally get the answer to one of my questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely. We will come back to it in the third round.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Or a threat.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank the witnesses for their answers to all the questions. It is helpful for us in the committee to get our heads around this. It is important we are clear that we are talking about different types of technologies. It took me a fair amount of time to understand the difference between a timber frame versus a modular versus a cross-laminated timber, CLT, and some of the variants. Once we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I have a general comment and then a final question on concrete. I am saying this more for the benefit of the record and the work we will do after this, but we have a particular problem in our urban centres. Building apartments, of which we need lots, is slow, expensive, dirty for the people who are working on-site, inefficient because of disruptions caused by rain and the natural...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: In that context, why is it not the case that all public bodies involved in construction are using lower carbon cement but also that public policy determines that we get to a point where, say, 80% of all cement used in the State is low carbon? That is a figure off the top of my head. If it we are in the good location and it is already doable, as the OPW has shown it is, should we not make...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: If, as Mr. O’Connor has said he would favour, we set a higher standard for the product that is sold into and used in the Irish market, there is nothing stopping a company located in Ireland from meeting that standard. If it then also opts to export to meet the standards in another jurisdiction, that is its business. Is that not right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: We can only set laws for ourselves. Does the Irish Green Building Council have thoughts on these issues?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: If it is very doable, is there a conversation to be had about it, beyond organisations such as the Irish Green Building Council?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: We make the homes affordable. If they are affordable, people will buy them. I am sorry to cut across but the single biggest determinant in people choosing to purchase a home is the cost. If the home is affordable, they are more likely to buy it. I know it sounds like a facile thing to say but it is a fact. We often have these discussions in Ireland about home ownership versus renting and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: If it is done correctly.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — house prices continue to spiral out of control; — a growing section of people are locked out of home ownership; — the latest Central Statistics Office Residential Property Price Index shows house prices increased by 15 per cent State-wide in the last year; — the largest increases were in the border...
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Not true, just not true.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Two years out of date.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Two years out of date.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister asked me a question.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: There are no targets.
- Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is called planning law.