Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have a question before I let Deputy Neville back in on this issue. I was a member of the original committee dealing with housing and homelessness before the Government was formed and at that time it was difficult to ascertain the cost of building a house. Mr. Parlon stated that 45% of the cost of building is the hard cost, 40% is tax related, including VAT and so on, and there are then 15% in associated costs such as land and so on.