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- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: It is a strategic location, I get that, and it is a welcome development. I am trying to determine the reason for the discrepancy between the €1,350 average rent and yet we have these modest two bedroom apartments in Citywest running up to almost €1,800. They are running at up to 25% more than the average.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Where are the units that cost €990?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Where outside of Dublin? That could be anywhere. Outside the Pale?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: They are in Limerick city.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: That is good. That is for a one-bed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: How many square metres are they?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Will they be A-rated?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Are they turn-key properties?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Okay. Is that working out cheaper?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Everything is predicated on the actual cost of delivery - rents, the amount of equity if you are using the help-to-buy scheme, which is effectively what is happening here for the purchaser and all of that. In cases where people are buying affordable housing, if some of them are that, all of that is predicated on the cost. That will determine the rent going forward, or the mortgage in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Would it be cheaper in some cases to buy a turn-key because the cost of delivery through this model we just discussed for ten minutes seems to be very high?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: I understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: I propose to suspend the meeting for ten minutes and we will resume in public session.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: I call Deputy Farrell, who has ten minutes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Who will take that question, will it be Mr. O'Neill?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Mr. Coleman mentioned the tenants and how they are generally happy. The security of tenure is a big factor. I know from dealing constituents in the private market, they are on the edge of their seats the whole time as to when a lease will run out, when will the landlord decide he wants the home from one of his or her family, or when will the landlord decide to sell because houses are at...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: How many has the agency?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: There are six. With the framework, presumably the LDA has a system where it works out it is so much per unit, this is a service that is provided and within that framework it would have been procured. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Land Development Agency (10 Oct 2024)
Brian Stanley: Regarding how does the cost the LDA is paying under the framework agreement compare with the cost charged by management companies in the open market?