Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his department's estimates for the average cost of a rapid build unit. [35386/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Estimates set to date for rapid build units have been based on standard unit cost ceiling data held by my Department for standard social housing units. Recently returned tenders analysed have supported this approach, with the average tenders being returned within 5% of the unit cost ceiling data, which is considered to be a successful outcome. Given that there are procurements either underway or planned to commence shortly on a number of projects, it would not be appropriate, at this stage, to make information available on average costs for recently completed procurements, given the market sensitivity of the information. All rapid build homes are required to comply with the minimum standards of the Building Regulations and the requirement for a 60 years durability, as for general social housing, in which case it is not anticipated that there would be any significant departure from normal build costs.