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
Cian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
I appreciate the answer. It just sounds like the Minister is saying that, with rents now set in the cost-rental sector, if there are options to reduce those rents and make them more affordable in the future, the Government does not intend to look at those options because the rents are now set. There is a view that it is locked in. It should only be locked in if there are no viable ways to make those rents more affordable. That should be on the table. Of course, it should be locked in that rents will not go above the current level. For the viability of the schemes and paying back the financing of them, they have to be at that level but, if ways can be found to make them more affordable, they should be on the table and should be considered. It should not be that they are simply locked in and there you go.
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