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- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: Mr. Parlon indicated in his opening comments that the cost of housing, taken in the context of the Central Bank guidelines, is an issue. During his presentation he referred to the issue of VAT and development levies and so forth. It would be remiss of the committee not to ask directly what saving, if any, can be made on the costs over which the construction industry has direct control? Mr....
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: You indicated that in the case of a €300,000 house the construction cost was approximately €150,000. What is the breakdown of that €150,000 between materials and wages?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: I thank Deputy Durkan. If Mr. Parlon holds on for a moment, I will take two or three questions together. I call Deputy O'Dowd.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: I will take one more question in this section. I call Deputy Coppinger.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: The Deputies have posed a number of questions for Mr. Parlon to answer.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: I thank Mr. Fitzpatrick.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: We will take just one or two more questions. To be helpful, if Mr. Parlon does not have all the answers on cost, we will have the Society of Chartered Surveyors before the committee next and its representatives may have more detailed answers. Deputy Joan Collins may like to continue her line of questioning with them. However, we will wait to see what Mr. Parlon has to say on that.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: The final person to put his questions is Deputy Quinlivan.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: Which answer?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: The surveyors are outside and there are issues that I want to follow up.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: I will take the remaining questions and then we can complete this module.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: Before Mr. Parlon responds, a number of issues will probably overlap with the next section dealing with surveyors. We can follow those up. I invite Mr. Parlon to address a number of questions.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Construction Industry Federation (3 May 2016)
John Curran: I thank Mr. Dempsey, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Parlon, Mr. O'Neill and Mr. Neville from the Construction Industry Federation for appearing before the committee. I thank them not only for their answers to the questions put but also for the document they supplied. As they will have noted, there is a diverse range of views on some of the suggestions they have made, some of which we will probably...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (3 May 2016)
John Curran: I bid the witnesses a good afternoon. They are very welcome. At the outset I wish to read the note on privilege. I draw the witnesses' attention to the fact that, by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the committee. However, if they are directed by it to cease giving evidence on a particular...
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (3 May 2016)
John Curran: Are they 2016 projects?
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (3 May 2016)
John Curran: At this stage, we will take questions. I am conscious that we are resuming in the early afternoon and the members might keep the questions as direct and as specific as possible.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (3 May 2016)
John Curran: I will take a few of the members together and come back to the society.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (3 May 2016)
John Curran: The delegates might like to address that series of questions first.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (3 May 2016)
John Curran: If a property is valued at €300,000 and the hard cost is €150,000, what is the breakdown of the latter between materials and labour? This is the specific point at which Deputy Joan Collins was trying to get.
- Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland (3 May 2016)
John Curran: I share Deputy's concern about building costs because I am frustrated. We are talking about building a house, yet, as a committee, we are not able to find out the labour cost in building one. This is the second group we have asked and it is somewhat frustrating because Mr. Mahon is saying inflation is to occur.