Dessie Ellis
Question:349. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount it would cost to build an additional 1,000 three-bedroomed homes through the local authorities. [30370/14]
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Questions (349, 350, 351, 352)
Dessie Ellis
Question:350. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount it would cost to build an additional 1,000 two-bedroomed homes through the local authorities. [30371/14]
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Question:351. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount it would cost to build an additional 1,000 one-bedroomed homes through the local authorities. [30372/14]
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Question:352. Deputy Dessie Ellis asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount it would cost to build an additional 1,000 four-bedroomed homes through the local authorities. [30373/14]
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 349 to 352, inclusive, together.
Construction costs vary greatly across the country and given the range of variable costs as well as site-specific factors such as location and availability of services and access infrastructure, it is very difficult to give precise estimates of cost for the various house types without access to site-specific and evidence based information. In the case of the 66 social housing construction projects approved by my Department in April 2014, the overall cost amounted to €68 million, giving an average unit cost of €151,447. These houses vary greatly in size and specification and, for the most part, will be constructed on small infill sites with little land costs involved.
The home insurance sector in association with the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland, published guideline costs in April 2014 for the construction of various types of homes. These costs range from around €1,200 per square metre for the North-West area to around €1,800 per square metre in Dublin. Using some of the target floor areas as set out in my Department’s best practice guidelines for social housing and the guideline construction costs for a range of notional house types in the Dublin area, a tentative range of construction costs are set out in the following table:
|
Dwelling type |
Floor area (Sq. M.) |
Construction cost |
|
1-Bed Apartment |
45 |
€81,000 |
|
2-Bed terraced house |
70 |
€126,000 |
|
3-bed semi- detached |
100 |
€180,000 |
|
4-bed semi- detached |
110 |
€198,000 |