Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 17 November 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund

9:30 am

Mr. John Hogan:

The Central Bank looked at it recently as part of the change in the mortgage rules. If we look at the background to the decision by the bank on that, it published quite a bit of information on its approach to it, what drove its decision on this particular occasion and so on. There are other schemes as well. The shared equity scheme, for example, has 650 approvals at the moment, so there is help for a deposit with that. We are mindful as civil servants when we offer advice to the Minister that we recognise what is happening out in the world and what the pressures on individuals and households are but there is always that balance to be struck between the piece the Chairman articulated there-----

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