Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 July 2025
Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 16 - Tailte Éireann (Revised)
Vote 23 - An Coimisiún Toghcháin (Revised)
Vote 34 - Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised)
2:00 am
James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
The challenge with turnkeys is they are private delivery, they have gone through planning, sometimes they are off plan and sometimes they are literally at the stage where they have the key to turn. The distinction I want to make in future is I do not think off plan should not refer to turnkey but I do not want to get into semantics. Until we get everything over to plan-led there will be a period where what the Department and myself are mandating local authorities to do versus the turnkeys will have a differential. That is the practical outturn of it. I accept that. There is very little that can be done about that practically. As I say, we want to get to a position where we are not relying on those turnkeys anymore. It is far from ideal and I accept that.
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