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

...impact assessment of recent changes to building regulations alone in the past five years would demonstrate the challenge to home building. There must be an urgent review of our compact growth design standards. By applying a qualitative assessment rather than a quantitative approach, we can increase affordability and optimise greater land efficiency. Through standardising open spaces,...

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

Emer Higgins: ...Stadium, which was a recruitment event aimed at young people. There was a massive queue of young people outside the stadium when I got there. I was struck by it. All those young people could apply to get their safe passes there and then. It showed the significant interest in that area from a careers perspective. I would be interested to hear a little more about what apprenticeships...

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

John Cummins: ...the witnesses comment on that in the context of what has already been stated in respect of the viability gap with apartment development, particularly in regional cities and outside Dublin? I am from Waterford but this applies to Cork, Limerick and Galway, where the viability gap is even greater than it is in Dublin.

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

Mr. Eddie Taaffe: We in the local authority sector view cost rental as a game changer in such development. We can apply for affordable housing funding to subsidise the upfront provisional cost of apartments or houses for cost rental. Looking at brownfield development in regional cities, for example, local authorities are looking at such sites and obtaining them through compulsory purchase...

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

...developments are very much on the radar. We need to understand what is cost neutral and what we can implement in a house or an apartment complex in a cost-neutral way. I think that premiums will apply to designing and constructing apartment complexes or housing developments that will embrace new technologies and designs. If the materials are not available and the specification is not...

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

...for affordable housing delivery is the affordable housing fund administered by the Department. The main criteria the Deputy is referring to are that for a local authority to be eligible to apply for approved housing funding to provide affordable housing, it has to cover more than 5% of its households, as defined by the housing needs demand assessment. That is based on Central Statistics...

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

Francis Noel Duffy: ...any solutions to that? The Government cannot keep reducing soft costs. Have the witnesses done any modelling on previous price cycles to see where, when or if we will come out of this? The same applies to apprentices. I know the witnesses mentioned capacity earlier. Are we at capacity yet? When will we be at capacity with apprenticeships? The witnesses mentioned going outside the...

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

...in terms of the capacity of the industry and the appetite to take on certain work. We are seeing quite a lot of movement in the market but, again, it is down to how we anticipate what risk premiums contractors are applying to public sector projects versus private sector ones. There is a premium-----

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...and I am not sure whether everybody, aside from the specialists, appreciates the significance of that. If we were to take the various recommendations, good, bad and indifferent, from the SCSI reports and apply all of those savings, we will be no longer moving towards affordability but just towards the market price, which was a problem previously. I think that is important to emphasise in...

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

...them in June. That will bring a greater level of analysis and transparency to exactly where and when houses will be delivered. That will be useful for the construction sector. This probably applies more to the larger urban areas such as Dublin, Cork, Galway and so on but there are benefits to master plans. We need to utilise master plans for areas for redevelopment. We should get...

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

Eoin Ó Broin: ...today about the Department of Education being concerned about residential planning applications for areas where there were no school places. I agree with Mr. O’Connell on strict timelines, but they must apply to both the public and private sectors. Just as there should be statutory timelines for planning decisions by the board and for an environment court to dispense with legal...