Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We have a mechanism to help in that case. Not many sites have closed. Some stalled for a while, particularly in the second quarter, after the outbreak of the Ukraine war. We saw what happened there but we will reassess any reasonable request for a price increase. We receive requests every week where there has been an increase for the contractor. We do not want to see any projects stalled or contractors walking off site. Having said that, we have to be careful of the public purse too. We do not want a situation where people may be inflating the inflation cost. We have been working well with sector on this issue. In the coming weeks, our housing output for public contracts and social housing will show that we have been pretty successful, despite the difficult year.