Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Modern Construction Methods: Discussion
Francis Noel Duffy (Dublin South West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
Can a State body, for example, Coillte, then apply for that? I am sorry to put the witnesses on the spot. I learned from Mr. O'Connor that we have harvested our timber and wood since the mid-1980s. That is nearly 40 years. CLT is modern enough, and I am sure it has been in the system for a good 20 years. Somehow, those things have not been connected where somebody in the State will tell somebody else in the State to get the Agrément certification for CLT so we can use it. At the moment, we are dead in the water.
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