Mr. Andrew Brownlee:

Obviously, our perspective is from a training and upskilling perspective. On NZEB and retrofitting skills, on which a couple of speakers have touched, industry buy-in is the key now. We have the centres of excellence up and running. The training infrastructure is in place and places are available. Demand to date, while it has been growing, is still not at the level we need to reach the overall target of eventually retrofitting 45,000 homes a year. We need to work with those in the sector and find some way of incentivising them to send their workers away to undertake the training courses at Mount Lucas and other places across the country. The first thing we need to think about is how to persuade the construction industry, given that there is an awful lot of work out there for it, to buy into that future opportunity.

On the skills in MMC, that is the whole idea behind the demonstration park. The demonstration park absolutely cannot just be a place for showcasing new technologies and new building techniques. That means nothing unless it is linked to the training and education that is available alongside it. The idea of basing that in Mount Lucas and letting Laois-Offaly ETB develop and run it is to link it to the training. I will ask Mr. Dalton to say a few words on that.