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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Yes, the modular unit. Mr. Conlon told me the average cost per modular unit is €442,000.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The average cost per unit of developing sites, including connectivity to services such as gas, water and communications, and extensive remediation works on the suboptimal sites available, is in the region of €150,000 compared to initial cost. Mr. Conlon is telling me to subtract €150,000 from the figure of €442,000 for the cost of preparing the site.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is in the briefing note I have been supplied with. In any case, let us say it costs more than €150,000 and is €160,000 or €170,000. I do not know. The OPW is saying it costs €442,000 in total, with €150,000 of that for site servicing. The actual modular unit, which I am pejoratively calling the box, costs €150,000. I am still missing...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Does Mr. Conlon disagree that the average cost per modular unit is €442,000?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Let me come at it another way because I am not getting a clear answer. Let us split it the other way because it is €150,000 the other way around also. It is the same amount. The total cost per unit is €442,000. The box itself, that is, the modular unit, costs €150,000. That leaves €292,000. Where is the €292,000? Mr. Conlon is not telling me it costs...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Hang on a second. The €442,000 is an awful figure. I am going to return to the €150,000 because the figure Mr. Conlon gave me comes out at well over €3,000 per square metre. I will come back to that. Mr. Conlon said €442,000 is the total. The actual physical modular unit is costing €150,000. That leaves a hole of €292,000 to fill. Can Mr....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Conlon asked from which briefing document I am speaking. This is the document that was sent to the clerk of the Committee of Public Accounts on 7 October 2024 in preparation for this meeting. I again quote from that document, which is not paginated, unfortunately.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Michael Collins was born close to Clonakilty.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: Not the one beside the Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: No. Where Fine Gael was born was close to Clonakilty. He was born to the son of a farmer. Since it has come into government, for decades, Fine Gael has done nothing but close down farms around this country. We then go to Eamon de Valera, who was born in New York and raised in Bruree, County Limerick, and was for Fianna Fáil. Again, we look across the Governments over decades slowly...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: My party and this Government are proudly supporting farmers, rural Ireland and the agriculture sector. We meet them on a very regular basis. I meet them on a very regular basis. I regularly met them with the Minister for agriculture as well. We took a number of decisions in the budget to further support farming and farmers, including making sensible changes to the residential zoned land...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach. I apologise for arriving so late to the meeting. I was chairing the meeting of the Select Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. It was unavoidable. I apologise also if I duplicate earlier questions as I was not in a position to follow the meeting. I am aware that the issue of modular housing has been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: The figure the Taoiseach gives of 40,000 homes is disputed by the ERSI and the Central Bank. We know commencements are one thing and completions are another thing altogether. For the first six months of this year, completions are down nearly 10%. That is the reality. He mentioned the help-to-buy scheme. On this, the ESRI has stated that if this scheme was scrapped, house prices would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: -----not banning the bulk-buying of homes, not addressing these issues has not worked.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: There is no balance to the Deputy's argument; this is the point. I am able to stand here and talk to the electorate on their doorsteps and point to progress and also point to the more there is to do. The Deputy just wants to dismiss any of the progress, as though those extra 128,000 homes do not exist. I am interested in what she is saying now because she has set out her stall if she is to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: I am glad the Deputy picked up my election hints anyway. I thought they were rather subtle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Simon Harris: There goes the surprise. It is a serious issue the Deputy is raising and I do appreciate that. We have significantly increased the level of supports to our student nurses. We did that, as she rightly said, arising from the debate around Covid and post Covid in respect of the very important role being played by student nurses. I do not have the specific figures in front of me but I think...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Taoiseach has confirmed we will have an election in a matter of weeks, and with that, this Government’s disastrous handling of the housing crisis will be on the ballot. A vote for this Government will be a vote for record house prices, record rents, record homelessness and over 500,000 adults living in their childhood bedrooms. Every week, this crisis deepens and deteriorates....