Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion

Photo of Steven MatthewsSteven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I apologise. I will have to leave it at that due to time. I will come in, followed by Deputy Ó Murchú. We have the last two slots left.

I wish to go back to affordable apartments for purchase, such as apartments built to sell, obviously to a higher standard. We also want those apartments to be livable for life and be family-type apartments. We need to densify and we need more compact growth.

I wish to ask Professor Hegarty a question. On the affordability and construction of apartments, we are told it is only affordable when they are build-to-rent and it is not affordable to build them build-to-sell. What is her sense of that? What needs to be done to make-----

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