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

This is quite important because we have raised this concern regularly. If I am a AHB and I want to do a turnkey, for example in Dublin city, I must clear that through a Dublin City Council housing manager and if one AHB is in negotiations, nobody else can enter negotiations. My understanding is that the LDA is paying more than AHBs in certain locations. I am not criticising the LDA for it. It is able to; it has a different process. There is no actual clearing mechanism to make sure that there is no competitive pressure put on prices. But its rents are also higher than the AHB cost rents in certain instances.