Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 19 September 2023
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI
Dr. Robert Kelly:
While I appreciate that it is not my role, I will offer one additional comment. I agree with everything Dr. O'Brien said. Financing is part of this. If we look at our capital spending and what we have done around housing, we could challenge the assertion that finance is the biggest block to the provision of housing, for example. There are a lot of other things. In the housing commission Dr. O'Brien referred to, there are a lot of ways in which we could think about the delivery of housing that, absent additional capital spending, could actually unlock more housing.
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