Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Committee on Budgetary Oversight
Residential Premises Rental Income Relief and Mortgage Interest Relief in Budget 2024: Discussion
Mr. John Kennedy:
It is clear the situation is unfair. I do not know why it has not been pulled back a little. I understand that during the crash, the Government wanted money coming in to plug a hole. It threw out massive incentives to get as much cash in as possible to create a catalyst. The estate agents, our members, got no benefit from that. The country got back on a good path and whether that was part of the catalyst or not is debatable. Certainly at this point those tax incentives and benefits seem to be unfair. I do not know why it has not been clawed back at this stage.
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