Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government

Review of Housing and Homelessness Policies and Initiatives: Local Authorities

9:30 am

Mr. Anthony Flynn:

I wish to be very clear to Deputy Cowen. What I mean by scale is that these guys set up jigs to manufacture off-site. What they are doing is manufacturing boxes. It is as easy for them to manufacture 100 boxes or 500 boxes as 20 boxes, as my Cork colleague said. What I am suggesting is that if there are appropriate locations for this rapid build housing in the context of scale - traditional build may be just as quick - from a national policy perspective, we have said we will build 700 units in the next 18 months and, if we do so, I think that will generate interest from big players. In the context of the big players-----

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