Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Finance Bill 2025: Committee Stage
2:00 am
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
That goes back to the advice I received from the Department of housing, which has said that these rents are now set and that they are already set at a level significantly below levels in the market. There are two different issues. There is that issue and then the second issue, which is that, in policy terms, I am not looking at this measure as something that will influence the level of rent for cost-rental properties. Rather, I am hoping that it will contribute to the LDA and the AHBs being able to deliver more cost-rental properties full stop.
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