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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I am thinking more of the planning side. If you have the advice and experience from elsewhere, you can to some extent force a change of direction. Witnesses mentioned methods in different countries that would not necessarily be germane to our culture and the way we live. Change has been forced in the past through planning, such as making it more difficult for people live in rural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Timmy Dooley: On the point Deputy Bruton rightly identified, some of the Georgian buildings in this city in the 1970s and 1980s were brass-plate offices for smaller solicitors, accountancy firms and so on and are vacant now, yet heritage in various local authorities require them to be maintained in exactly the same format. I do not suggest we should not try to protect and preserve our heritage but in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Some planning requirements are particularly onerous and put an encumbrance on a developer or somebody who wants to go ahead with a project. It may not be for anything other than aesthetics or trying to be in character with the area.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Timmy Dooley: That is an issue in every village and town. In Ennis, tremendous work is being done by the State and the local authority in upgrading the public realm. However, the above-the-shop spaces, if you want to use that term, are largely unutilised. We need to find a way to use those spaces. I suspect we will need to do so by offering more supports. The grant scheme that is there at the moment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Timmy Dooley: VAT on repairing and upgrading a building in Ireland is different to the rate in the UK. The relevant figure may not be one that our witnesses have off the cuff but they might provide that to us. There is a difference in how VAT is applied depending on the cost above which a property requires renovation. I have heard the situation in Ireland makes it less interesting for those who would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Timmy Dooley: That is the point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Timmy Dooley: That would generate more activity in the development sector. Certain people in the development sector would bring those to the market. It is not everybody who wants to purchase a property and do it up themselves. Perhaps Mr. Fitzpatrick could provide to the committee a note on that topic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Timmy Dooley: They are not lobbying against it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I wish to make a comment on that. Regarding the report on the circular economy, it is all about utilising assets insofar as we can. This goes back to the couple of points I made on VAT and the issue of Georgian property. There is a difference between the way in which properties such as those are treated here and in the UK. The witnesses might share information on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Timmy Dooley: It is not part of the circular economy, but it is about making better use of an existing asset. While I am not talking about the life cycle of the material, at the end of the day this is about reducing our carbon footprint.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Construction Sector: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Timmy Dooley: That would be helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome Mr. Jacobs and his team. They are before the committee again. It is good to have them. I have a couple of questions. On the second runway, will the representatives give us some idea of the positive impact that has had in getting aeroplanes away in the early morning and at peak times? I still hear from people who use Dublin Airport that there is still some congestion,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I have no doubt.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Is the DAA prepared to work on that with Ms Considine and her team?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Timmy Dooley: At some point, Mr. MacCarthy’s airport will reach capacity and there will only be so much it can do unless it wants to expand into Cork Harbour.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Cork Airport might have a planning issue or two.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I am tight on time, but before Mr. MacCarthy contributes, I wish to raise a matter that relates to the cap on parking at Dublin. Has anyone examined the idea of the airport having a park-and-ride facility in Naas or somewhere similar on the western road? My mother trained as a nurse in the UK. In her early days of travelling to the UK, people would check in somewhere on O’Connell...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Timmy Dooley: It used to be the case in Oslo. When I was there a long time ago, I would check in at an SAS hotel. The staff would take my bags and give me a boarding pass and away I would go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Summer Plans for Dublin and Cork Airports: DAA (19 Jun 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Back to the future.