Timber shortage impacting house building and construction
Mark McAuley, Director of Forest Industries Ireland beside timber-framed houses at the Gem Construction site in Dunshaughlin, Co Meath. Picture: Tony Gavin.
The housing crisis is set to be further impacted by the shortage of timber available to builders, builders merchants and hardware stores because of the ongoing struggle to get licences issued for planting and felling trees, by the Department of Agriculture.
According to the experts in the field, demand for Irish timber is at an all-time high but current stocks are rapidly dwindling as a result of failures to issue necessary licences.
