Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment
Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Ciarán Nugent:
Addressing the housing crisis would bring down the upward pressure on wages, especially in the bottom half of the wage distribution. Last year, average rents went up by 7% and we have a 4% or 5% average wage increase. That gap has been widening almost every year for the past ten to 15 years. That would bring down those pressures.
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