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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: Are there opportunities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: Is there a mechanism to allow for this task force to report? What is the reporting format of the task force? Is it for consumption by ourselves and the Oireachtas or is it purely something that is being managed at a departmental level or Cabinet level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: Is that something for us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: I agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: The Minister mentioned in his opening remarks the decarbonisation of the industrial base in terms of warehousing and their own buildings, and setting out, to my mind, a mechanism for how we would achieve or incentivise that. Also, when you look to retrofitting the residential sector, you look to the SEAI. Obviously the SEAI has a role to play. What departmental work does the Minister...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: Has there been much uptake of those schemes? Uptake is a key indicator of whether a plan is successful and enticing for a sector.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: I understand.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: I apologise. I am afraid my time is almost out and I want to focus on a final issue that is important to me. It relates to trying to get as much concrete as possible out of the construction sector across the board, as quickly as possible. I understand the Minister's Department has an interdepartmental group that is looking at modern methods of construction. I touched on this previously...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: Yes, it is. A huge amount of work needs to be done on the regulations and terms and conditions of use of timber-frame technology in Ireland. For instance, we are behind other jurisdictions, as far as I am concerned. I am wondering what that body will do; when we will hear about it in a report to Cabinet or to the Oireachtas; and what steps we expect to take as a result of the changes I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: When does the Minister expect a report to come before the committee, the Oireachtas or the Cabinet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: I have a related question on the idea of the digital nomad, the person sitting in a pleasant environment in Spain but working in the Irish market. It is fine within the EU in terms of tax treatment and arrangements. However, it becomes a problem outside the jurisdiction. Unfortunately, Northern Ireland is an example. The UK is too. Is there a simplified process to be managed by employers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: That is our challenge for the future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: I was going to say that exact thing. I am aware of members of parliament from another jurisdiction who participated in parliament from a remote location - outside the jurisdiction, shall we say?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: Not this jurisdiction, I should point out. It was a different parliament.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: On the four-day week, interesting results arose from trials in the UK that took place between June and December 2022. I understand that a similar trial took place here and that the reporting back on it is overwhelmingly positive. The UK trial showed a drop in emissions of 10%, mostly due to employees reducing their weekly commute. A trial in the United States in 2022 resulted in a 27% drop...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: For full-time employees, the productivity question has been answered, which is remarkable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: If there is information, on top of what the Minister has already outlined, that the committee would find relevant and pertinent to its responsibilities, it would be very helpful if he would send that to us. He has already committed to communicating in respect of any matters members have raised, but if anything else arises-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (22 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: No. That is indeed a story for when the microphone is switched off. I was present.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Events (21 Feb 2023)

Alan Farrell: 70. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on her engagements in relation to the stated intention of the International Olympic Committee to explore the development of a pathway for the renewed participation of Russian and Belarussian athletes in international sports competitions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8487/23]