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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of retrofits completed per month under the warmer homes scheme in 2022, in tabular form. [25823/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the average cost of completion per dwelling under the warmer homes scheme for each of the years 2019 to 2022. [25824/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 98. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the value for money of each of the retrofit schemes expressed as estimated CO2 savings per Euro invested in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25825/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 108. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the emissions saved per-retrofit scheme for the years 2016-2020, in tabular form. [26228/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide a breakdown of the cost of each retrofit scheme per kWh of primary energy saved annually and per-lifetime tCO2 saved over 15 years, in tabular form. [26229/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 157. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue raised through VAT on solar panels. [25818/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 229. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish the expression of interest document that his Department and the Housing Agency are circulating to developers related to the croí cónaithe cities scheme. [26270/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide a list of all the developers, building contractors, professional organisations and others that his Department and the Housing Agency consulted in developing the croí cónaithe cities scheme. [26271/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a standard developer's margin will be permitted in the market price charged for apartments benefiting from the croí cónaithe cities scheme.. [26272/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if build to rent apartments with the build to rent design standards will not be eligible to apply for funding via the croí cónaithe cities scheme.. [26273/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: 580. To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase the number of nurses working in neurology services in a hospital (details supplied). [25661/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank our guests for their presentations. It is important to say that we organised this hearing, which is one of two we have planned, because almost everybody on the committee shares the concern that all of our guests have raised today. We are all out and about and are talking to SME builders, buyers, materials suppliers and to our local authorities and in the past year in particular,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: From that information, what was the percentage increase not just in the hard costs but in all in-development costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Obviously, that will bring to bear a huge pressure because, compared with the private sector, a 10% or 15% increase in construction costs will have a much bigger impact on public spending, which in turn will have a huge impact on meeting social and affordable targets if that filters in by the end of the year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: On that point, one of the problems with apartments is our 10 m restriction in respect of cross-laminated timber etc. Is it time we started having a conversation about changing those regulations? We see in other jurisdictions that where they can embrace the full range of new building technologies, they can get cost savings, but we are limited by that regulation, surely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I emphasise that the purpose of these sessions is to find solutions. There will be an outcome to this, in case our guests are wondering why they are sitting here answering our questions for two or three hours. Part of this is about us as a committee writing to the Minister to try to convey some of the urgency that all three organisations are outlining. I might make a couple of general...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I hope Mr. Taaffe realises he might have a defamation case against the accusation that he is working in the Custom House.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: That would be a 10% increase in construction costs but a 5% increase on the all-in costs because of the harder half of the all-in costs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: I agree with Mr. Taaffe. He and I worked on an SDZ in south Dublin. I think it is a good one but it took two years. Is there a way of taking that principle and accelerating it, maybe by not doing them on such a grand scale or having options? Landowners are being told there is nothing they can do for two years while there is a public consultation process. They have to engage and design...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Eoin Ó Broin: Would any of the witnesses like to comment on the point I made at the start? We were talking about a gap between affordability and viability. We are now talking about a different gap, and we have to be honest that it is between the market price and a higher all-in development cost. If one looks at the document that has been circulated to industry by the Housing Agency, it states what the...