Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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There are different views. I fully appreciate and I am not going to get into the technicalities of it but looking at the Nordics and the height restrictions we have, tight restrictions, in the use of timber frame and the likes of glulam or the various other means of producing a property, whether it is offsite construction, slot Lego blocks or whatever they are called. I have seen them. They are very impressive. In other jurisdictions there does not seem to be as much of a restriction on height. Certainly one particular local authority in Norway which was brought to my attention just before Christmas by a good friend of mine, allows 18 m of precast wood. This is a significant building. I do not believe, having read the answers to the parliamentary questions I put in, that that would be permitted here. That is something I would like to review and have a regulatory decision on, in terms of what we could aspire to. Viewing it from the structural stability angle of course, then the fire regulations surrounding it, 18 m is a four- or possibly five-storey building.