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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for cutting across but is the council noticing any variation with fixed-price contracts where there is tendering for its own direct delivery versus prices for turnkeys versus Part Vs, or is it the same across the three delivery streams?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I apologise for cutting across again, but is it Ms Donaghy's understanding the council's members will have access to the burden-sharing mechanism the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, has introduced? Has the council got the technical detail of that yet? In there sense of whether that is going to work or not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Again, as this is important, is Ms Donaghy saying there are certain types of fixed-price contracts where there will be a flexibility but there are other kinds of contracts that the council signs with contractors where there will not be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Deputy McAuliffe has not spoken yet.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will pick up on Deputy McAuliffe's point because this is an important discussion. Dublin city will have a problem both on affordable cost rental and affordable purchase under the affordable housing fund. Deputy McAuliffe outlined price ranges and if we go to the suburbs or the project mentioned by Mr. Doyle earlier, they are generally out of inner urban Dublin sites in various ways. That...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: And on the VAT?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I ask for the Chair's indulgence. From an embodied carbon point of view, in particular, linking lower embodied carbon residential developments with a reduced VAT rate makes an awful lot of sense. I was asking about VAT for new build social housing because that is kind of different. Is there a reason that would work for new build social housing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Donaghy is making a case for a P&A that is full-cost recovery of to finance construction management-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Just to be clear for the clarity of the committee, it is not just the loan, it is management-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: It is basically the gap between the differential rent. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----and all of the costs over the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: That is why the directors of housing local authorities look so enviously at that particular funding model. They would not mind having it too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Sure. I agree with Ms Donaghy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Inflationary Costs in the Construction Industry: Discussion (28 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I am not arguing against the P&A, because it is good. The only thing I will say is the local authorities do not get that money at that point in time, which is why we are currently talking about demolishing apartment developments from the 1950s and 1960s. That grant funding model is both underfunded and incredibly inefficient. What is good about the P&A and why there is a case to be...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defective Building Materials (23 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will be super quick. It is not just the cap. It is also the rates. Head 13 is very clear that the Minister cannot review the rates until 12 months after commencement. Even if a property is well below the cap, if the NSAI recommends foundations to be included, if somebody has a 1,000 sq. ft. home, for example, they will not be able to enter into the scheme and get full remediation until...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (23 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: They were not voids. The vast majority were not voids.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (23 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: Answer the question. It is a simple question.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (23 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Minister of State does not have the answers, if we are honest.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Schemes (23 Jun 2022)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Ministers just provoke us too much.