Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion

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

I will ask the question in a different way. I am not trying to be difficult. Brendan Kenny gave a figure of €1,300 per month for St. Michael's back in 2019. Knowing what we know about cost inflation between then and now, we are probably looking at €1,500, depending on what a tender would come in at today. That might go down at a later stage but we are not expecting construction sector inflation to go down. Likewise with turnkey properties, or even O'Devaney Gardens, are the witnesses optimistic that affordable cost rental, as people call it, could be delivered at €1,300 or €1,400 per month in O'Devaney Gardens, given what they currently know?

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