Air Pollution (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2026-01-28
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Chris Andrews (SF), Labour Panel

I thank the Minister of State. I referenced rural communities, but I would like to highlight another aspect of the Bill that he might clarify. Residents living in flat complexes like Pearse House or Markiewicz House cannot retrofit or insulate their flats. The local authority has to do it for them, but that is just not going to happen in the next 20 years. They are living in conditions where the windows are rattling, the doors are thin and sometimes cannot be closed and when they swell up they cannot be opened. Honestly, the doors have wind and cold coming through them. Those people's bills are going up as they try to heat a flat that is extremely poorly insulated. Is the Minister of State saying this Bill will not look after them at all? Can he give some assurance on that?

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