Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

Given the disastrous failure of PPPs to deliver for St. Michael's Estate and Dominick St., has the Government decided to abandon that model when trying to progress regeneration? I hope it has. Will the Government consider moving to a direct labour approach to the regeneration of estates, refurbishment works for council estates and the construction of social housing? This is a quicker way of doing it and is not vulnerable to the ups and downs demonstrated by PPPs that are dependent on private developers involved to make a quick buck. Even with the tendering process, where it is outsourced, there are major delays. There is a regeneration project in Dun Laoghaire, which took ten years because private developers-----

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