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

Martin Kenny: I thank the witnesses for their contributions and opening statements. We are in the midst of a housing crisis. In that context, one thing that strikes me is the fact that everyone says the solution is to build more houses. That is pretty obvious. The difficulty we have with labour restrictions and everything else in this regard is a major problem. The tendency seems to be, and it is a...

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

Martin Kenny: Are there any issues around that? I am thinking of the problems we have with mica, pyrite, etc., in the context of adhering to regulations as we move forward to come up with better materials that may have unintended consequences in the future.

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

Martin Kenny: I have just one final point. The cost of all this is the first thing people think of, and it has been the experience in the past that when you go to a greener type of building, the costs go much higher compared with the costs of traditional materials that have been used. We have an argument going on at the moment about the cost of affordable housing in Dublin. The cost of affordable...

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

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I will continue on the same theme. On the barriers to retrofitting, it strikes me the default position seems to be demolition and rebuild rather than retrofitting or refitting. Will both organisations touch on some of the barriers as they see them? The next issue is for CIF. I see many recently-developed housing estates. I am in County Meath and...

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

Darren O'Rourke: It is one of them, although they have drumlins in Monaghan and they manage to beat us. What of that policy of burying waste soil and covering it with a lawn of grass? Maybe CIF can start with that one and we can touch on the retrofitting barriers.

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

Darren O'Rourke: Does Mr. Fitzpatrick think that equation will change with a change in regime, increased circularity and everything we are talking about here? How does he think a change in the regime in the sense of increasing the amount of circularity, the reuse of construction and demolition waste will work? Will that lend itself to more demolition or less?

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.

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

Malcolm Noonan: I thank the Deputies who contributed. I apologise on behalf of the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond. He had to go to another event. I will try to sum up the contributions I have listened to, if that is okay, before I give a closing statement. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett raised the issue of tax breaks for forestry as I came into the Chamber. These are issues in respect of which...

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

Gerald Nash: I welcome the opportunity to have a debate, if we can describe it as such, in this Chamber on a highly significant report from the Commission on Taxation and Welfare. Quite frankly, if the Committee on Budgetary Oversight had not decided to examine the recommendations of the report, which was published in September 2022, I do not believe we would be having a debate in this Chamber at all....

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

Bernard Durkan: The next speaker is Deputy Boyd Barrett who will have ten minutes

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

Richard Boyd Barrett: I will probably take less than ten minutes. The Commission on Taxation and Welfare deserves great credit for the extensive work it did in producing its own report, which is a huge piece of work. Similarly, the Committee on Budgetary Oversight put in a fair bit of work and thought into producing its own report. Given the volume of recommendations involved I do not support many of the...

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

Neale Richmond: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion and thank Deputy Ryan, in particular, for proposing it and providing context for this very important debate. I thank the members of the budgetary oversight committee, especially those who are present for this debate on a Thursday evening, for compiling the report following their examination of the report of the Commission on Taxation and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Youth Services (27 Jun 2024)

Brian Stanley: The Minister of State listed off a lot of sums for once-off funding that are relatively modest. The particular funding stream that goes to ETBs for distribution in Laois - he also referred to Louth - is far lower. It is just above €15 per head of youth population in 2023. I accept and understand that there are parts of Dublin with the highest needs, but a gap of 1,000% needs to be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Youth Services (27 Jun 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: There is a disparity between the €160 for every young person in Dublin city and then €15.50 in Louth and Meath. The average works out at approximately €51.60 per young person, but I do not think putting a price on every young person is the issue. It is being able to provide as wide a range of services. Deprivation is deprivation be it in inner-city Dublin or in rural...

Message from Select Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Message from Select Committee (27 Jun 2024)

Marian Harkin: The Select Committee on Transport and Communications has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2024: Vote 29.

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

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

Patricia Ryan: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Select Committee on Budgetary Oversight entitled "Examination of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 20th September, 2023. I am happy to introduce the Examination of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare Report produced by the Select Committee...