Dáil debates

Thursday, 19 January 2023

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions

Capital Expenditure Programme

11:50 am

Photo of Gerald NashGerald Nash (Louth, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Does the Minister of State have a figure for the additional cost across government given the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has been renamed the Department for the delivery of the NDP, as well as having special responsibility in that regard? What is the additional cost, outside of what was agreed? The responsibility lies 70:30 in favour of the State. It is important to put on the record the additional cost involved. There is no doubt this was an important innovation. The difficulties contractors found themselves in last year were extraordinary. I looked at the figures earlier for construction price inflation. The cost of structural steel increased by 64.1% early last year and that maintained throughout the year. There was a 46.3% increase in rough timber. The problem is clear.

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