Mr. Neil Kerrigan:

I will speak about removing barriers. There was an earlier question about collaboration. Enterprise Ireland has been and is working with the construction and digital innovation group that has been set up by the construction sector group. It is chaired by P.J. Rudden. The group is working on seven actions. Action 7 was a build digital project, which just started in February of this year, led by Robert Moore. Action 4 is the technology centre, which Enterprise Ireland was asked to lead on. As I mentioned earlier, the competition for that was run and we have made the announcement about NUIG hosting a technology centre.

The third action that the group is working on relates to modern methods of construction and what that means. After many years - members have heard various dislocations and fragmentation - while this is a challenging industry, one can say that under Project 2040 we are starting to organise and collaborate at a stakeholder level. Collaboration is not easy. In response to the question about barriers, for the first time in the sector that group has the opportunity to bring everyone to the table, the likes of the Irish Green Building Council and others, to take the information but move on it. It is not unusual to see that two of those actions are already delivered by P. J. Rudden's group and that is only about 18 months into existence. To be positive on the collaboration and integration of the industry working together, that initiative was set up under Project 2040, led by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.