Kieran McCarthy

Morning Clare.

We, like during, I suppose things have normalised again a bit now lately, but like during the blockade, I mean, look, every delivery was at risk.

We had probably about 10 days of, between the slowdown and the actual stop of fuel moving.

We saw some, yeah, I mean, we missed one load of concrete blocks to a site.

So we had masons on site, they had to turn around and go home back to West Cork.

So that was a day wasted for them.

And we had an interior designer coming down to another job that was supposed to sign off on tiling and paint colours and whatever.

So all that work had to be postponed for a week because none of it could be signed off because the designer coming.

Yeah, I think that when you step back and look at the broader picture here, I think it's probably more cost related in the medium term because the costs have certainly gone up.

I mean, one of our key suppliers in Cork would have had to increase their delivery costs because the contractor they use to do all their deliveries has given them two increases, one before the fuel crisis and one since the fuel crisis or the war in the Middle East.

And it's all related.

So their fuel inputs have gone up, so now they're charging more for their deliveries.

I suppose broader again then, when you look at construction products and materials, the biggest issues there are anything that's petrochemical intensive.

So when you look at insulation and you look at PVC, insulation has probably gone up 10%, 15%, 18% in places, and PVC products have gone up nearly 20%.

And that's on top of all the increases we've already had from the Ukraine war.

So a very unwelcome byproduct of this war.

100%.

Yeah.

So we had a project that we went for planning for, we'll say six months ago.

It went to the Cork County Council planning department.