Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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516. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when the Housing Agency will complete its exercise on their independent estimates on the cost of house construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1521/17]

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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The cost review that the Deputy refers to is currently being undertaken by the Housing Agency and it is envisaged that it will be completed in the first half of 2017.

In parallel, a working group, chaired by my Department, has been established to undertake a detailed analysis of construction costs, in order to benchmark housing delivery input costs in Ireland with a view to identifying economies. This group is also scheduled to report in the first half of 2017.