Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate

Mr. Cormac O'Rourke:

I have a final point on cost inflation. I wish we could control inflation, but that is certainly well beyond my powers. There are certain things we can do to try to keep costs down in the LDA, which will come about by maximising competition between construction companies. There are also certain other large areas which are not within our control but the control of Government policy. We will look to the Government to work with us and try to help us to drive down the cost of houses. That is something on which we will continue to engage with the Government. It is beyond my scope to comment on Government policy in public, but that does not mean we do not make representations in the background. We do that, and we have some ideas about how it might feed through to reduce cost of housing.

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