Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Population and budgets - that is what we are watching. Thank you for that, Deputy.

Moving on, No. R2208 B, from Graham Doyle, Secretary General of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, dated 26 October, provides further information requested by the committee during the meeting of 1 June. It is proposed to note and publish this item of correspondence.

I noted this item and flagged it for discussion. I do not know if any other members wish to come in on it. I wanted clarification regarding the figures for the cost of housing, including direct builds and local authority housing, which is coming in at a national all-in cost of €365,000 for a three-bedroomed apartment and €318,000 for a three-bedroomed house.

The other key piece of information in this correspondence is that it gives a county-by-county breakdown of the number of homes built by local authorities using the design-and-build model last year, which was 1,666. Members will see that at the bottom of page 2. As regards approved housing bodies, capital advance leasing facility, CALF, turnkey acquisitions numbered 2,538. Those detailed figures are in the correspondence for members, and they can look at the figures for their own counties there. In a number of counties, including Kildare, Deputy Murphy, no housing was built by the local authority. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown was the same, as were Longford and Louth. Roscommon had two. Laois had 43 direct builds. Members will see those figures in the correspondence.