Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Committee on European Union Affairs

Eurofound: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Ivailo Kalfin:

This is one of the possible ways to address the housing crisis. When employers really need workers and those workers cannot come because they have nowhere to live and cannot afford the prices, this is what employers will do. This is probably a kind of solution. At the same time it creates some other problems. The problem is where to weight it because then the worker becomes dependent on the employer. If you lose your job, you are going to lose your house also, which creates other types of problems with motivation and efficiency at work etc. Certainly, this is one of the ways to address the issue. Probably, where companies look for staff and cannot pay the salaries those staff could get in the free market, they would address that. I do not expect that this is a solution that could solve all the problems. This is one of the possible solutions, again creating some additional problems.

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