Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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My query is less on the AHBs and the local authorities because they are already well co-ordinated. Maybe the local authorities are sometimes just offloading the turnkeys onto the AHBs but that is a separate issue. The difficulty is the Housing Agency is now in the market for turnkeys, as is the LDA, and the AHBs do not all have the same purchasing power. Depending on how Croí Cónaithe and Project Tosaigh work out, there could be a greater level of purchasing power in the Housing Agency and in the LDA. It is not that I am suggesting that people will directly enter into competition but they will have a Minister breathing down their necks looking for delivery on whatever the targets are. How do we design a system that makes sure that competition is not there? I am more concerned - and I use that term advisedly - with Croí Cónaithe and Project Tosaigh and their impacts on inflation and turnkeys.