Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Has there ever been a budgetary allocation or support? Have we advanced that? I met with a community-led housing group and, again, it is quite a small impact on housing. It is quite important as well. The Minister might respond to me when he has time to research that.

We did quite a significant report here on modern methods, low carbon technologies and volumetric and modular housing. Does the Minister foresee where we would be able to invest more in that to signal to industry that is a direction we want to go in future budgets and maybe even set targets for low carbon delivery? We are one of the biggest providers of housing in Ireland and the biggest provider in procurement of building services. We should try to go for that low carbon technology. I do not expect the Minister to have those three answers because we are dealing with supplementary questions.