Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023
2:00 am
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
Thank you. I have one last question on modular units. There is a huge opportunity for the country to deliver rapid-build modular units at scale. We have the companies, the capacity and the ability to build homes in factories and land them on-site with services on public land. Why did modular-unit costings jump from €200,000 to €442,000? The witnesses can correct me if my figures are wrong but it just seems like it ran away from the Department.
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