Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I apologise for arriving so late to the meeting. I was chairing the meeting of the Select Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. It was unavoidable. I apologise also if I duplicate earlier questions as I was not in a position to follow the meeting.

I am aware that the issue of modular housing has been raised. I will not ask specifically about that. I was trying to get to grips with how much the actual boxes cost, or the actual units. We were given the average cost of €442,000 for delivery of each unit. In Mr. Conlon's briefing note, he said €150,000 was required for remediation of sites, provision of services and connectivity services, and things like that. In a very simplistic way, I took the €442,000 and subtracted the €150,000. I hope I am wrong because that put me at €292,000 for the actual box, the actual modular unit that I am describing. If I am right, the unit is 45 sq. m.

It is that cost I am looking to get at, that is, the average. We have a total overall cost. We are saying the sites were difficult and required a lot of money to get them ready. I want to know how much we paid for the-----