Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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Looking at the employment statistics in construction, the numbers working on office construction are back to 70% or 80% of what they were at the peak of the Celtic tiger years. That has not happened in the housing sector. How different are the skills of building an office, which we seem to have been able to do, and to bring in skilled workforces adequate to building offices on a huge scale, which are now facing declining demand? What is the obstacle to the housing sector, which ought to be using the same kind of construction methods as an office? It is not that radically different.