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

I thank the witnesses for their answers to all the questions. It is helpful for us in the committee to get our heads around this. It is important we are clear that we are talking about different types of technologies. It took me a fair amount of time to understand the difference between a timber frame versus a modular versus a cross-laminated timber, CLT, and some of the variants. Once we have those measurements in place it allows us to see which are the best in terms of the lowest levels of embodied carbon. A timber frame is good but it is not good enough in terms of where we ultimately want to be. The Irish Green Building Council might respond to my original question, as the witnesses have not had a chance to do so. I am interested to hear more from Ms Mark Christal and his team on where the industry is at in the really high quality lowest possible carbon product. We already have companies in Ireland which are producing a product not unlike CLT. It is not the same, the technology is different but as far as I can see it produces the same output in terms of the low levels of embodied carbon. I would be interested to hear where that sector is at. However, first, Mr. Barry or Ms Jammet might revisit the question of the type of positive incentives that could be introduced. Let us imagine that they are in charge of the world and we have our measurements in place by 2023. That is all very well but we must have the incentives in place to ensure the industry and the public sector make that transition as quickly as possible afterwards to the lower carbon technology. What is their shopping list of the incentives they would like to see from the Government that we might recommend to it in whatever output we have from these sessions?