Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Modern Construction Methods: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Steven MatthewsSteven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will move onto scale now. What is suggested by that mandate is, if we are going to start ramping up to 40,000 homes per year, which is what is needed to produce through various methods, and if we were to set that target at 10,000, we probably do not have capacity within the MMC manufacturing base in the country at the moment. It is a chicken and egg situation. We would have to have surety that if someone was going to invest in the factories and the training that the 10,000, or the 15% or 25% in the UK, would happen. How do we bring those two together?

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