Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Financing of Social Housing: Discussion
9:00 am
Ms Cathy Bryce:
Those skills are being built back up. One of the things we would say, in general, in respect of social housing is that stop-start is very difficult. That is also the case in regard to PPPs. If we were to do these first three bundles and then stop, it would take a great deal of effort to start again. It is the same with the local authorities and skill sets. It is important to try to keep some continuity in all of the channels, if at all possible. The local authorities are building up their skill sets. We have worked, or I should say that the team has worked, as I am relatively newly joined, with great people in the local authorities on developing these PPP schemes. We would certainly like to keep that continuity of experience now that it has been acquired after an amount of hard grafting, if I can put it that way. It is a challenge, overall, for the industry because we are suddenly into this upsurge of construction in all areas and not just in social housing. I refer to housing in general, offices schemes etc. My colleagues might comment on that further.
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