Maureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the society for its presentation. The first point I would have to take issue with is what Mr. Cleary said about the docklands. As somebody who is from a docklands community, still living there and representing it, that model is not to be totally recommended because it certainly made many mistakes, not least of which was the conflict of interest between the Dublin Docklands Development Authority, DDDA, and the banks and their lack of engagement with the existing communities in the area. My difficulty with them, through the strategic development zone, SDZ, has been the limited amount of land becoming available for housing, particularly social housing, if they had the space, and that brings us back to the 10%. I merely wanted to make that point and to get the witnesses' view as to whether more could be done on housing in the docklands because the space is there. My fear is that much of the housing will be for attracting in workers through foreign direct investment rather than for those whom we need to house.

My second question is on the hard cost of the building unit. The witnesses stated less than 50% is on the building. Could they provide a breakdown of the other 50%?