28th July 2023 XX Business Dara Deering (centre) CEO HBFI, Home Building Finance Ireland with Darragh Lennon, head of communications HBFI; Fergus Mangan, , HBFI; Conor O'Connell, Irish Home builders association and Stephen McCarthy, Astra construction at the HBFI half year conference at the Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork. Picture; Eddie O'Hare