Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I have raised construction workforce capacity and apprenticeships. It might not be simple to do, but for us to bang the drum on this matter in our report, it would be great if each organisation told us how many people should be in the workforce, what the shortfall is and how that needs to be made up. We could then push that with the Government or whomever. The issues of 35,000 units per year, retrofitting, Ukraine and direct provision are all in there. What construction workforce do we need? From what the witnesses stated, it sounds like we are only halfway to where we need to be if we are only able to achieve 20,000.