Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry to cut across Mr. Armstrong, but this sounds like a body of work to be completed in terms of framing what is suitable for use in Irish construction versus what we are currently using. Are we reinventing the wheel? Can we not look at what the Scots are doing? They have a very similar climate. I ask this because many of the concerns about modern methods of construction, timber-frame construction in particular, relate to humidity and the moisture content in our environment versus other jurisdictions. The present views are very antiquated. Certainly, in the context of reports I have read from other jurisdictions, official documentation provided to me via parliamentary questions, as I said, alludes to an old view on a very modern set of circumstances. I wonder, therefore, if what the Department is doing is a body of work to get to a point, or did I miss Mr. Armstrong's point?