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

Timmy Dooley: Is this Meath's excuse for not winning so many games?

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

Timmy Dooley: I thank the witnesses for both presentations. They were thought-provoking. I wonder, with regard to the innovation, should we be leaving it to the industry to innovate or should we have a State agency that is looking at best practice across the globe, in terms of trying to reach a firm decision on the direction we take? We have to take into account what Mr. Fitzpatrick said. There is a...

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

Timmy Dooley: It is competitive. You are bidding against X or Y so you are not going to go 10% above because you have got to innovate for potentially more green, where there is a price differential as well. What I am trying to get to is whether a standard should be set to a level.

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

Timmy Dooley: Innovation is generally driven by trying to reduce cost. Of course, there is the green piece now.

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

Timmy Dooley: Yes.

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)

Timmy Dooley: That would be-----

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.

Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Motion (27 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I assure the Acting Chair that I will not take the ten minutes allocated to me. On behalf of the committee, I thank all the stakeholders. Their work was invaluable to us. The amount of work the civil servants have put in has been invaluable. I like to think that, down the road, the report will not be left gathering dust on a shelf but will be implemented and will be a launching pad for a...

Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Motion (27 Jun 2024)

Question put and agreed to.

Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Motion (27 Jun 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 6.15 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 2 Iúil 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 6.15 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 2 July 2024.