Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 4 December 2025
339. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the expected date for the publication of the first productivity indicators for residential construction, including those relating to Modern Methods of Construction; and the timeline for updating these indicators annually. [68820/25]
Amharc ar fhreagraConstruction: A National Accounts Perspective 2024 was published by the Central Statistics Office in September 2025 and is available here: www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/fp/fp-cnap/constructionanationalaccountsperspective2024/productivity/.
This provides the labour productivity for construction of buildings.
The development of productivity indicators is the policy remit of the Minister for Enterprise Tourism and Employment and the Central Statistics Office.
Delivering Homes, Building Communities, the new National Housing Plan to 2030, contains a range of actions to increase skills and support Modern Methods of Construction building on the initiatives already in place.
Under Delivering Homes, Building Communities, my Department has commenced work on the recent collection of MMC data in the Building Control Management System which will be used to inform future policy. This data is currently undergoing validation and quality assurance processing. Publication of this data will be subject to the completion of these processes.
