Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 December 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin
9:30 am
Mr. Maurice Buckley:
A very important point is that the sites Mr. O'Connor and the team are working on for the rapid-build homes are being designed in such a way that, if it is decided to remove the rapid-build homes, houses for social housing, such as terraced housing or three-bedroom semi-detached houses in the traditional style, could be put on the same sites. That element of the work, which accounts for quite a substantial portion of the €150 million, will be reusable and expand our social housing capacity.