Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 October 2024
Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Supplementary)
5:30 pm
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
There will be. The increase in the CREL includes an increase in what we spend on it, but there is construction price inflation as well. On the approval of our schemes, we are looking in particular at cost containment as well, especially on the management costs of those. We have been very strict on that. Schemes have not been approved straight away but have been sent back in particular on the cost-containment side of things. The €225 million is a significant extra amount. I want to be straight with Deputy Ó Broin, that is not all for additional housing delivery, but we will have much stronger delivery this year on cost rental.
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