Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

When Mr. Mahon's colleagues were with us previously when we dealt with construction sector inflation, it was really helpful. One sense that I got was that it is not that different materials are increasing in price but that different sized contractors experience that inflation in terms of their purchasing power from the supply chains in different ways. A big developer such as Cairn Homes, for example, is able to bulk buy and buy early. Given that this is a grant scheme and one that will rely in many ways on local contractors and suppliers, would it be fair to say that because of their more limited access to and lower purchasing power in the supply chains, they could experience cost inflation at a higher level than larger contractors?

Could we see quite abnormal cost inflations in County Clare versus County Mayo, or in different parts of those counties?