Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Under the Government’s Housing for All Plan, my Department is working to promote innovation and increased productivity in the residential construction sector, including the more widespread adoption of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC).

In December 2023, KPMG was awarded a contract by my Department to develop a MMC Data Dashboard for integration into the Housing for All Data Insights Platform. The delivery of this Dashboard is an important objective of the 'Roadmap for Increased Adoption of MMC in Public Housing Delivery', developed by my Department with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and is a deliverable under the updated Housing for All plan..

DETE has commissioned this work in order to benchmark current levels of MMC adoption in the Irish residential construction sector and to be able to track indicators over time on adoption and related trends in productivity performance. The output from the study will enable the Department to inform ongoing work and to measure policy impact over time.

Key deliverables include research on MMC in international comparator countries and their measurement practices, the development of key metrics for collection in the Irish context, a gap analysis and identification of current data sources which already collect these metrics, and an industry survey to collect data identified in the gap analysis.

Next steps include the finalisation and dissemination of the market survey. Survey dissemination is due to take place in May. This will be followed by a period of data collation, data analysis and integration into the Data Insights Platform.