Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The one-stop shop is working now and the numbers are increasing. It was always going to take time. This is a medium-to-long-term initiative. Doing up your house is not a small decision. The benefit of a one-stop shop where you get trusted advice and are helped through the process is real.

I do not see a disadvantage in there being contractors, be they subcontractors or contractors. The main constraint at the moment is the lack of contractors. From speaking to people in the business, the challenge for them is in getting workers and meeting demand. There has been an explosion in public demand for their services. That is right and good. Numbers are increasing in terms of apprenticeships and other mechanisms, and the certainty around multi-annual funding is helping that further. I do not see subcontractors working with a one-stop shop operation necessarily being at a disadvantage.