Mary Fitzpatrick (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I proposed that we consider the same issue but merely from a financial perspective. The State is using many different models to deliver homes, ranging from emergency accommodation to the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, the housing assistance payment, HAP, homeless HAP, public private partnerships, PPPs, turnkey and long-term leases. From my experience, we always look back and ask whether something was good value for money. An exercise needs to be undertaken to examine the various models from a financial perspective, but also taking into account the time and the quality of the deliverables, and to rank the projects that give the best value for money, not just in monetary terms but also in terms of quality of homes and the quality of communities being completed. I seek the same thing as Senator Cummins and it would be preferable if we could incorporate both issues into one. My proposal primarily seeks a financial modelling exercise to be done.