Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

From my point of view, it is the low-carbon technologies, so whatever they are. Obviously, wood is one of those, but it is not the only one. In that sense, if Mr. Carlin asked me to clarify just in terms of his answer and as he represents Coillte, if it is action for wood, that fits. Our guests know this much better than we do, but the public conversation, inasmuch as it is happening, is very confused. As I said at the start, we use phrases like “modern methods of construction” but people have been prefabricating stuff since the 1940s. All of the great public housing all over Europe was prefabricated, though I know it is a different kind of prefabrication. The important thing is whether we can build larger volumes of good quality homes more quickly and with the lowest embodied carbon. That is where some of us on the committee are at and that is what these sessions are trying to tease out, without in any way compromising building control and fire safety standards.