Steven Matthews (Wicklow, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Absolutely. The witnesses are dealing with the emergency situations and when I focus on policy, it does take a little time to kick into place but it has a long-term benefit. Because of the crisis we are in at the moment, I do see the advantage in that, although I would have had a view on it before. As well as that, we hear from developers that a lot of the sites where these developments could be located are non-viable, as there is no opportunity to make a private market sale because they are too expensive, but I can see the advantage if the Government was to come in and subvent it and enter into a long-term leasing arrangement.

I have heard about tax breaks for landlords as well. If I went out on the plinth and said that, somebody with other ideology would beat me up and down the plinth with their policy an would say we cannot have tax breaks for landlords. Could Mr. McCafferty expand on that a little? He did mention it, but could he just elaborate?