Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 October 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Concrete Block Levy: Discussion
Mr. Kevin James:
In isolation, it looks like a nominal increase. In our profession, as quantity surveyors or project managers, we are looking at developments at the moment that have gone out to tender. They are coming back from tender somewhere between 8% and 15% over budget. If we fast-forward to September and we are looking at projects coming back from the market that are 10% or 15% over budget, this 5% levy is an additional problem for the industry to try to value engineer a solution to bring the project back into an affordability position. Otherwise, you end up value engineering or cutting out the scope and I do not think that is going to serve the industry well in the longer term.
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