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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I get that, but that is the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, and when that Department is in, I will grill it on that. There is nothing to say that once that methodology is in place, the planning system could not be revised to privilege certain types of building materials. I do not mean individual building products but products that have a certain embodied carbon level. There is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: What I am hearing from Mr. Armstrong is that bit of work will happen after the methodologies, certificates and frameworks are agreed. That is not being prepped in parallel now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am just asking-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I am not convinced but I hear Mr. Armstrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I do not dispute that but our difficulty is that if the Government's targets are met, we will churn out a considerable volume of homes. Those homes will contribute significantly to emissions outputs. This is in no way to show a criticism of anything Mr. Armstrong has said and the information he gives to committee is always very helpful to us, but there is an opportunity now to do this as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: It is not that I do not. It is just that we have heard from them and we will hear from them again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The reason I was bracketing that stuff off is because-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: The reason I was bracketing that stuff off was because they will tell us that themselves. I know Mr. Armstrong has said it was not these sections but planning, building control and fire safety regulations will be critical in reform of those three areas if the really good work other Departments and the outwork on the EU directives is to be accelerated in terms of delivery. I presume Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That I know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I accept all of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely not. Let us take cement and concrete. If we take the approach Mr. Armstrong has just outlined, the vested interests that have made high levels of investment in recent years in their higher carbon facilities will desperately resist the shift to many of these new methods of construction. One of the challenges to the building industry will be that some of the companies and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: We will come back to this conversation very soon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Energy Performance of Buildings Directive: Discussion (28 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Who will predict where we will be then?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (26 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 477. To ask the Minister for Finance the total amount of revenue raised via the carbon tax in each year from 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and the breakdown of the areas in which the tax revenue was spent on via voted expenditure in each of the years in question. [19465/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (26 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 489. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of Home Building Finance Ireland, HBFI, loans by number of units fewer than 25, between 26 and 50, between 50 and 99, between 100 and 200 and over 200, geographical location of development by county and tenure, owner-occupier, private rental and social rental in tabular form. [19717/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Defective Building Materials (26 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 527. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his engagement with the construction, quarry, local manufacturing, insurance and banking sectors on establishing an industry levy to cover part of the costs of remediating homes and other buildings impacted by defective blocks or other building defects such as fire safety and water ingress defects. [20746/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ukraine War (26 Apr 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 539. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has met with an organisation (details supplied) and other construction industry companies in relation to the provision of leased modular units to provide accommodation to refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine; the persons he has met with; and the proposals and the financing costs to the Exchequer under that are consideration....