Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 June 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Local Government Fund Account 2021
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 6: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities

9:30 am

Ms ?ine Stapleton:

We have quite a lot of data on that. I am happy to share that information with the committee. Our various delivery streams help us to build up a picture. With own construction delivery, we get good-quality information coming through from the tender process, which allows us to set basic unit cost guidelines for local authorities. Our separate delivery stream on turnkeys gives us a good indication of the market prices of similar units. We can give the committee average figures across the different delivery streams, which will allow members to look at the comparison. We might do it by local authority area if we have the information. I caution that there can be differences depending on location, unit type and site issues, etc. It is not necessarily comparing like with like when looking at high-level averages.

We will look at the level of detail that we have and we are happy to share that with the committee.

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