John Cummins (Fine Gael)
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Is there a case to be made that if local authorities, particularly in urban and city areas, have schemes on which they have gone out to tender and the tenders have come back much higher than anticipated, and the only way they can get those numbers to work is if the figure of what was €75,000 is increased to €100,000 or €125,000, the Department will actively look at that to make those cost-rental schemes work? That is something that is happening on the ground. Schemes that are being tendered are coming back higher and without that higher fund, they simply do not add up in terms of the Housing Agency model. Is that something that Ms Timmons can give a commitment around?