Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

We do not have very much time. I have learned a lot about the REITs and they are very interesting but I am alarmed.

I would like to hear the answer to Deputy Doherty's question on the corporation tax rate, as yet again we seem to be going down the road of reducing corporate tax liability in order to encourage investment. Have we not heard that before? The Minister seems to be suggesting this is a prudent form of speculating in property as opposed to the more imprudent forms of speculation in property that we had before. I would need to know a little more to have confidence that this is not another new model for a property casino. Is there any reason that it could not become that?