Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not suggesting that we should have a standard separate to the EU-wide standard, particularly given the volume of our construction materials, not to mention construction industry professionals, that come from outside the State. The issue is that once all that is in place, a separate piece of work must be done then in potentially changing our building and fire safety regulations and planning codes as well as introducing various incentives in procurement or the Department's four-stage approval process to make sure people use the lowest possible carbon building to produce their homes. I know the departmental officials are overworked and are working on a lot of things but given we know there is a timeline and that some of it is not under our control because it is happening at European level, in parallel the other relevant section of the Department could ask what we are going to do with those standards when we have them. We could start doing working through some of the preparatory work to ensure that once the standards are agreed, we do not then spend another year or two years breaking the back of the witnesses from the Department working out all sorts of detailed technical regulations. We are behind the curve on this in terms of where residential construction is happening. Does Mr. Armstrong recognise the question I am asking?