Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Photo of Michael McGrathMichael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One of the tools Professor FitzGerald recommended which could have been used to deal with his concerns on an impending housing bubble was to impose a tax on mortgage interest payments. When did he first propose that, how would it have worked and what reaction did he get?

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