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
Mr. Graham Doyle:
I am not sure of those figures but I will say we have not been seeing cost savings across the board in the wider market. Modular construction is not cheaper yet. It is quicker and it is better for a lot of reasons but it is not quite cheaper yet. It is hoped that in the future we will see economies of scale in modular construction or modern methods of construction, as we prefer to term it, but there is very much an initiative right across government now to try to build that industry in Ireland.
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