Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 July 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Nexus Phase
Mr. Joe O'Reilly:
Well, I don't want to get into ... that's sort of commercially sensitive, but what I can tell you is what's relevant today ... is what it costs to build a house today. And to build a house today is somewhere in the region of a three-bedroom semi that you refer to is somewhere up to €280,000 up to €300,000. And I have to say that, and again just to understand, that that's only the cost of building the house. You have to put in the infrastructure and you have to ... people just think about, you know, what they see within the ... just the house and the front garden, the back garden, if there's gardens, or the front area and the back garden. They forget about the roads, they forget about the, you know, the surface water, sewer, the foul sewer. They forget about the water. All of those costs that have to be incurred.
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