Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Quarterly Economic Commentary: Economic and Social Research Institute
2:00 am
Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
The institute might keep us posted anyway because that body of work would be of interest to the committee.
If I can return to the reference to housing and its supply, the institute identified labour shortages and low productivity as key constraints. Would it suggest or support a targeted visa or work permit scheme to attract construction workers? It was mentioned the labour market was tight anyway but particularly in that sector and maybe this could be done alongside incentives for the modern method of construction, which Dr. O'Toole also referred to in his opening remarks.
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