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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Darragh O'Brien: ...question. Regarding the cost of construction and how to get costs out of construction, as Deputy Flaherty mentioned earlier, we build much better now than we did in 2008. It is like comparing apples with oranges. The quality of the homes being produced now is more expensive. Fundamentally they are more expensive because of what we are delivering by way of a product. We have to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mica Redress Scheme (5 May 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...€60,000 and €80,000 per home. The average cost in respect of the defective blocks scheme is significantly higher than that, as the Deputy will know. The maximum approved cost is €275,000. Apples and oranges are being compared here. We have to be honest with people. At the request of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, and Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Joint Sitting with Joint Committee on European Union Affairs
First Vice-President of the European Commission, Mr. Frans Timmermans: Discussion (21 Feb 2017)

Darragh O'Brien: ...the European Union. For too long all its negative elements have been emphasised. It is right people are critical - do not get me wrong. However, the fact that the Commission's judgment on the Apple case came a few weeks after Brexit happened should be considered from a political perspective. I thought the Commission was the best and brightest of the European Union but even the timing...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2015)

Darragh O'Brien: .... I wrote a complaint to the Minister in that regard. It is not that nurses and doctors want this to happen but they do not have the appropriate resources. The Minister offers sympathy and a bit of apple pie. He says it is terrible and desperate and that he would love it to be better. He is the Minister in control. He is in charge. It is his responsibility.