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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (12 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I will just make one quick comment. Walking around Dublin and seeing streets widened and people out there is great. There are issues, but it just reminds me of the Continent where people are allowed to walk the streets with their children in a safer environment. It is just great. I think it is brilliant. Does Deputy Matthews have a last comment or is he good?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Messages to Dáil and Seanad (12 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the following measure: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development (Street Furniture Fees) Regulations 2022, a copy of which was laid in draft...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (10 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: 357. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has given consideration to introducing carbon limits for our built environment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22808/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Policy (10 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will consider introducing regulations for full carbon life cycle assessments of buildings in public procurement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22809/22]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Sick Leave Bill 2022: Committee Stage (4 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I thank the Minister for his work on this Bill, which I am fully behind. Sick pay should be there for workers but I have been contacted by small family businesses with a number of employees, and as was mentioned by the previous Deputy, it is very difficult to meet that expense. Is there any format or way within the Bill through which they can be provided with some form of rebate?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (4 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: 90. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if consideration will be given to rewarding SEAI retrofitting grants where works have already commenced but meet the SEAI grant criteria; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22012/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (4 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: 194. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration has been given to allowing persons on a housing list in one local authority to move to another local authority housing list without losing their place on the list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22013/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I thank the witnesses for their time and briefings which are most welcome. I also thank them for their wisdom, this discourse and the energy all of them bring to the subject of embodied carbon. I have been inspired in my career by the work of Mr. Ciarán O'Connor and Mr. Pat Barry in their respective professional exemplary projects in policy agendas that are truly sustainable and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I have another question which is for Mr. Kerrigan. It is in respect of the establishment of an Irish cross-laminated timber, CLT, plant considering the research being undertaken by Professor Annette Harte in NUIG. My understanding is we are getting towards the supply-capacity space and that it adds value to our natural home-grown product. Will Mr. Kerrigan speak to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I have a question for Mr. Barry. Mr. O'Connor has already answered about when we start. I know from the architectural space that we work off standards and regulations. If it is there, we have to work to and are stuck to it. On the basis of what Mr. O'Connor said, would Mr. Barry agree that 2023 would be a good place to start to have such measurement, which is the main element? Is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: Excellent. I thank Mr. Barry for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: No. I am good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (3 May 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I want to make a few notes for the record because we are putting a report together. I have done research in recent years and I have been involved with Mr. O'Connor in that regard. The Forest Statistics Ireland 2018 report from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine shows that Ireland imported approximately 250,000 cubic metres of sawn timber per year between 2010 and 2017. In...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassadors of Moldova and Romania (27 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I thank the ambassadors for their briefings, which have been informative so far. Like everyone else, I have been following the invasion and looking at it geographically. Palanca, which my colleagues visited, is close to the sea and not far from the southern tip of Transnistria. In the context of Transnistria, what are Mrs. Miculet's concerns if the invasion continues? Transnistria goes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassadors of Moldova and Romania (27 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: I understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: Engagement with Ambassadors of Moldova and Romania (27 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: In the context of that corridor, Odessa will be cut off because there is no bridge. If that bridge at Palanca comes down, Odessa is cut off.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (26 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: 377. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the national charging infrastructure strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20093/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (26 Apr 2022)

Francis Noel Duffy: 378. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when it is envisaged that local authorities will avail of the new residential charging scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20094/22]