Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The proposal is to continue to extend this every single year, despite all the evidence that it is pushing up house prices. This tax credit has cost us €909 million, and independent reports tell us that 53% of it was not needed. That takes the biscuit. I do not know of another tax measure that has so much deadweight in it and in respect of which the Minister for Finance comes in and says, "Let us extend it for another year without any changes", and ignores-----