Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I know the background. Of course, not. The point I am making is that this thing that you have to start with a completely blank sheet every time has been raised here repeatedly by me. Mass production is cheaper, if you want to try to change every plan. I have not figured out the reason, with every school project, you start from scratch. I have not worked out why that is. Most of them, at least in my area, look the same. I do not know why that is done. When you are trying to provide a lot of housing - I have said here many times we do not want everything looking like the Soviet Union in the 1930s or 1940s, or some of the horrible buildings that were built during that period in other countries - it is a matter of a good quality finish but there is nothing wrong with having basically the same. What works is good and keep using it.

When you go in and do a direct build, are you competing there with approved housing bodies and even local authorities or maybe private buyers who are trying to buy turnkeys? Are you in direct competition with them or are you buying ones that have run difficulty where the developer has poured all the concrete but has not got much further than that?