Dublin City Council are paying far more for the construction of social housing than private developers or Approved Housing Bodies, a recent report has revealed.
The report shows there is a culture of overcharging Dublin City Council for housing, Sinn Fein’s Daithi Doolan said. The audit has found that the City Council pays 40 per cent more for the construction of housing than private developers and 23 per cent more than AHBs for housing.
“This report is damning,” the Sinn Fein councillor told Dublin Live. “I noticed over the recent years that when City Council goes through procurement to give a contract to developer, the costings were all way above and beyond what a normal build would cost. So basically, when they were going through the procurement process, they weren't giving them an honest deal or an honest offer - they were overpricing, over-inflating the costs simply to increase their profits.
