Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 21 September 2016

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Current and Capital Expenditure: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform

2:00 pm

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

No decision has been reached by the Government on the first-time buyers grant. The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, will bring forward a proposal on this. He shares the view that if we bring forward an initiative in the area, it is very important that it contributes to supply because we need more homes to be built.

We know the views of the Commission on water charges. We know the legal advice and the Commission's view on the legal need for some form of charging mechanism. If we end up funding water infrastructure from general taxation, it will directly compete with all of the other needs on which colleagues have pressed me this afternoon. We will have to add it to the list that includes housing, education and so on.

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