Mr. Pat Lucey:

Restoring the student levy would help. We are preparing a skills campaign and canvassing funds for it at the moment. We are also fundraising in the private sector. We would like an injection of help from Government agencies on that. We are absolutely dead serious about this. This is something we have to do. We do not have a choice. We need people to come into construction to do the work this country needs. We will make it happen, but it will happen better if we do it in collaboration with the State agencies.

Sean O'Rourke will be missing a trick if he does not turn up at Ireland Skills Live next year and broadcast from it some morning. He will see something different and get the news out on the airwaves that something different is going on.

I have two other comments to make. Deputy Boyd Barrett asked about the State building houses. We need a lot of different initiatives to overcome the problem we face. A lot of the initiatives that have been pushed out have been working and we have raised the output. As with any problem, however, we must have enough tools in our chest to approach this in the right way. One tool is missing at the moment; the State is not doing enough. We should not rely on any single thing. We need a combination of public and private efforts. The private sector will always take on entrepreneurial projects. It will take a risk on things that the State will not do. When it comes to solving problems however, we must all work together.

I refer to capital projects and unexpected tax funds. People do not seem to realise that if they make a decision to go ahead with something today they will see a shovel going into the ground four years later. It is no good waiting until next October to find out whether we face a hard or soft Brexit. We have to be decisive and press the button on projects now. Nothing happens tomorrow in construction. Press the button today and four years pass before a shovel is in the ground, and that is with everything going right.