Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Modern Construction Methods: Discussion
Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I have a supplementary question for Mr. O'Connor and the witnesses from Coillte. Obviously, there are procurement rules and planning requirements. Might it be possible for the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to say that under the five-year pipeline for the provision of social and affordable new builds, a certain percentage would be taken out and put into a separate multi-annual framework agreement whereby the providers of these building technologies would not just bid for an individual job of 50 or 100 units but also for work as part of that pipeline? That would give whomever is successful under the framework the certainty to allow them to scale up year on year. Is that where we need to be going?
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