Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency
Mr. John Coleman:
First, I will try to address the Senator's first question on the difference in delivery costs by going to a developer with Project Tosaigh versus direct delivery. Even when we are not going through a developer, we, like all State bodies such as local authorities, but it is mainly the LDA that is delivering directly in the State at the moment, go to main contractors. We would not go down a level to subcontractors or anything like that. It would just be impossible to manage from a procurement perspective. We would go to a main contractor and we would go to the market.
We look for fixed prices. There is a cost to that because it is on the contractor if something goes wrong. Essentially, it is their problem. That is the way we-----
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