Mr. Tommy Fanning:

We monitor the situation closely. Ms Buckley has mentioned Housing For All. The Housing For All figures target an average build of 33,000 units per year across the decade. We are not there yet. The target for this year will be met but we must look forward. To the broader point, it is a major issue from talking to our clients.

The other piece the Government is doing is the Attorney General's review of the planning legislation. We await the results of that because it is very important to accelerate the building of housing. There is talk already about the need for skills on the apprenticeship side. That also applies to construction. In the market now, everyone with construction skills is employed. We need more construction skills if we are to build more houses. This year, we will hit and perhaps exceed the target of 26,400 units. However, we need to be getting up into the high 30,000s if we are going to reach the targeted average to 2030. That is important to our clients throughout the country, be it in Limerick, Cork, Galway, Donegal or Dublin. That is necessary.

There are many individual, positive actions from the Government, such as the work being done by the Land Development Agency, LDA. We are engaged with the LDA to provide land that can be suitable for housing. However, we need to get planning permission through so construction can start.